IFWITOOL(8)

📦
version 25.09 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 IFWITOOL — the IFWI manipulation manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, so this is ifwitool from the System Administration Utilities lineup — it's section 8 of the manual, which is the system administration section, so you already know it's giving main character energy 👑

tl;dr: it's the utility for IFWI manipulation. That's the whole vibe. No cap.

✨ NAME ✨

ifwitool — Utility for IFWI manipulation 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ifwitool [-h]
ifwitool FILE COMMAND [PARAMETERS]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

ifwitool — Utility for IFWI manipulation. That's it. That's the description. Short, sweet, iconic, ate. 💅

🌈 COMMANDS 🌈

Here's the menu, bestie. Pick your fighter:

add -f FILE -n NAME [-d -e ENTRY] [-s]
create -f FILE [-s]
delete -n NAME [-s]
extract -f FILE -n NAME [-d -e ENTRY] [-s]
print [-d] [-s]
replace -f FILE -n NAME [-d -e ENTRY] [-s]
🌟 notice how add, extract and replace are literally the same shape? yeah. they're triplets. obsessed.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f FILE — the file to read / write / create / extract. the whole moment revolves around this file, fr fr. 🍓
  • -s — use the second Logical Boot Partition. yep, there's a second one. slay. 💖
  • -d — perform a directory operation. ✨
  • -e ENTRY — name of the directory entry to operate on. 🎀
  • -v — verbose level. louder = more info, iykyk. 🔥
  • -h — help message. your bestie when you're lost. 🫶
  • -n NAME — name of the sub-partition to operate on. 👑

🌸 NAME should be one of: 🌸

like literally, pick from this exact list, no substitutions:

  • SMIP (SMIP)
  • RBEP (CSE_RBE)
  • FTPR (CSE_BUP)
  • UCOD (Microcode)
  • IBBP (Bootblock)
  • S_BPDT (S-BPDT)
  • OBBP (OEM boot block)
  • NFTP (CSE_MAIN)
  • ISHP (ISH)
  • DLMP (CSE_IDLM)
  • IFP_OVERRIDE (IFP_OVERRIDE)
  • DEBUG_TOKENS (Debug Tokens)
  • UFS_PHY (UFS Phy)
  • UFS_GPP (UFS GPP)
  • PMCP (PMC firmware)
  • IUNP (IUNIT)
  • NVM_CONFIG (NVM Config)
  • UEP (UEP)
  • UFS_RATE_B (UFS Rate B Config)

💖 AUTHORS 💖

  • coresystems GmbH. 🏢
  • Man page written by Ahmad Khalifa. ✍️

and that's the whole page, bestie. every flag, every sub-partition, every little crumb — preserved, periodt. 💜

this was the IFWITOOL(8) page, dropped by coresystems GmbH in November 2024. go manipulate some IFWI, you've got this 🦋✨

📦 where this page comes from