REFORM-FLASH-UBOOT(1)

📦 version 1.71, in debian trixie

✨ REFORM-FLASH-UBOOT ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is reform-flash-uboot, a little User Commands moment from the manual pages, and she is literally here to download and flash u-boot for you. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

reform-flash-uboot — download and flash u-boot 🦋

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so the vibe is this, fr fr:

reform-flash-uboot [--offline] [--force] [DEVICE...]

She downloads and flashes u-boot for the current platform onto DEVICE. The way that works is: unless you pass the --offline option, she goes and downloads the latest u-boot to /boot/flash.bin. ✨

Then, if you gave her one or more DEVICE arguments, she flashes /boot/flash.bin onto that DEVICE with the correct offset</> (yes she knows the offset, she's built different 💅).

And here's the cute shortcut, iykyk: the short-hands sd and emmc can be used to flash u-boot to the SD-card or the eMMC, respectively. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • DEVICE — the block device you wanna flash, or just say sd or emmc and she'll know what you mean 🫶
  • -h, --help — shows you this help and then dips. bye bestie 😭
  • -i, --image — custom image, bestie! (default: /boot/flash.bin). heads up though: this one implies --offline. periodt.
  • --offline — do not download the latest u-boot to /boot/flash.bin. she stays local, no internet drama 🙈
  • -f, --force — no user interaction at all, and she'll flash to devices that are marked as warn. so like, she's not asking, she's just doing it. be careful with this one ngl 💀
⚠️ note from me to you: --force means no user interaction and it will flash devices marked as warn. that is a real warning word, so like… vibe check your device list first, fr fr 🍓

and that's the whole page, you ate that 🧚💜

sign-off time: this is reform-flash-uboot version 1.71, dated December 2025. slay, go flash something responsibly ⭐🌈👑

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