[flashrom] [commit] r932 - trunk

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Sat Mar 13 15:47:49 CET 2010


Author: mkarcher
Date: Sat Mar 13 15:47:48 2010
New Revision: 932
URL: http://flashrom.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/932

Log:
Patch: Manpage: Move description of layout file into the right place

Move the description of the layout file out of the --chip option
into the --layout option.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Mayer <jmayer at loplof.de>
Acked-by: Michael Karcher <flashrom at mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

Modified:
   trunk/flashrom.8

Modified: trunk/flashrom.8
==============================================================================
--- trunk/flashrom.8	Fri Mar 12 07:41:39 2010	(r931)
+++ trunk/flashrom.8	Sat Mar 13 15:47:48 2010	(r932)
@@ -62,6 +62,30 @@
 .TP
 .B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
 Probe only for specified flash ROM chip.
+.TP
+.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part>
+Override mainboard settings.
+.sp
+flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no
+coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can
+specify \-m, e.g.:
+.sp
+.B "  flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom"
+.sp
+See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom \-L' for
+a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no
+coreboot table is found.
+.TP
+.B "\-f, \-\-force"
+Force write without checking whether the ROM image file is really meant
+to be used on this board.
+.sp
+Note: This check only works while coreboot is running, and only for those
+boards where the coreboot code supports it.
+.TP
+.B "\-l, \-\-layout <file>"
+Read ROM layout from
+.BR <file> .
 .sp
 flashrom supports ROM layouts. This allows you to flash certain parts of
 the flash chip only. A ROM layout file looks like follows:
@@ -90,30 +114,6 @@
 flexible and they should lead to a ROM update file format with the
 ROM layout and the ROM image in one file (cpio, zip or something?).
 .TP
-.B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <[vendor:]part>
-Override mainboard settings.
-.sp
-flashrom reads the coreboot table to determine the current mainboard. If no
-coreboot table could be read or if you want to override these values, you can
-specify \-m, e.g.:
-.sp
-.B "  flashrom -w --mainboard AGAMI:ARUMA agami_aruma.rom"
-.sp
-See the 'Supported mainboards' section in the output of 'flashrom \-L' for
-a list of boards which require the specification of the board name, if no
-coreboot table is found.
-.TP
-.B "\-f, \-\-force"
-Force write without checking whether the ROM image file is really meant
-to be used on this board.
-.sp
-Note: This check only works while coreboot is running, and only for those
-boards where the coreboot code supports it.
-.TP
-.B "\-l, \-\-layout <file>"
-Read ROM layout from
-.BR <file> .
-.TP
 .B "\-i, \-\-image <name>"
 Only flash image
 .B <name>




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