Questions tagged [flashrom]

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How to flash firmware under Linux in practice?

Well, I am feeling too old for jumping through several burning hoops to upgrade several firmwares via the usual vendor-specific way: Download some DOS tools, waste some time creating a (Free-)DOS boot medium and wasting more time to make the BIOS…
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How to Reflash Toshiba Satellite L855-10P BIOS in a Linux Distro?

Hi I need to Reflash the BIOS of my Toshiba Satellite L855-10P using a Linux distro. How can one do this? I have found lots of info on how to read the BIOS (windows & Linux), dump memory from it (Linux), and installation via windows & / usb / floppy…
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Enable SPI flash device's power cycle write protection

Assume that an SPI flash chip is represented as /dev/spidev. How do I enable that flash chip's power-cycle write protection?
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How to find system bios address in linux

I want to do some interaction with bios of a embedded linux on an AMD Ryzen embedded platform. The main tool I think is flashrom which can read/write flash chips. It should also be possible to write data to flash rom using something like dd if the…
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