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diff --git a/doc/intro.rst b/doc/intro.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b1fe99aed --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/intro.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +**flashrom** is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash +chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, +network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices. + +* Supports more than 476 flash chips, 291 chipsets, 500 mainboards, 79 PCI devices, + 17 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers. +* Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various chip packages (DIP32, + PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, TSOP40, TSOP48, BGA and more). +* No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (not needed for some programmers). +* No bootable floppy disk, bootable CD-ROM or other media needed. +* No keyboard or monitor needed. Simply reflash remotely via SSH. +* No instant reboot needed. Reflash your chip in a running system, verify it, be happy. + The new firmware will be present next time you boot. +* Crossflashing and hotflashing is possible as long as the flash chips are electrically + and logically compatible (same protocol). Great for recovery. +* Scriptability. Reflash a whole pool of identical machines at the same time from the + command line. It is recommended to check flashrom output and error codes. +* Speed. flashrom is often much faster than most vendor flash tools. +* Portability. Supports DOS, Linux, FreeBSD (including Debian/kFreeBSD), NetBSD, OpenBSD, + DragonFlyBSD, anything Solaris-like, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes as well as GNU Hurd. + Partial Windows support is available (no internal programmer support at the moment, hence + no "BIOS flashing"). + +.. todo:: Convert Technology page and add links here + +.. container:: danger, admonition + + **Emergency help** + + IMPORTANT: If something went wrong during flashing, do NOT turn off/reboot your computer. + Instead, let us help you recover. We can be contacted via `IRC <https://www.flashrom.org/contact.html#irc>`_ + (#flashrom on `libera.chat <irc://irc.libera.chat/#flashrom>`_, `webchat <https://web.libera.chat/#flashrom>`_), + `Discord <https://www.flashrom.org/contact.html#discord>`_, or `email <https://www.flashrom.org/contact.html#mailing-list-1>`_. + Please allow some time until someone responds, we're all volunteers. |