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Firmware Test Suite - romdump utility

This utility dumps out the firmware ROM images and any existing option ROM images in a hex dump format.

An example of the output is as follows:

Dump ROM data.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Test 1 of 1: Dump ROM data.
Found ROM: c0000..d0000 (65536 bytes)
  c0000: 55 aa 80 e9 36 e6 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30  U...6.0000000000
  c0010: 30 30 94 24 e9 ad 23 b3 40 00 b0 0a 30 30 49 42  00.$..#.@...00IB
  c0020: 4d 20 56 47 41 20 43 6f 6d 70 61 74 69 62 6c 65  M VGA Compatible
  c0030: 20 42 49 4f 53 2e 20 03 6e 00 7e 00 8c 00 8b c0   BIOS. .n.~.....
...
  cffe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  cfff0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

BIOS ROM: f0000..fffff (65535 bytes)
  f0000: 41 77 61 72 64 20 56 69 73 74 61 00 00 00 00 00  Award Vista.....
  f0010: 49 46 45 24 e7 56 02 00 00 09 00 00 00 f0 aa 00  IFE$.V..........
  f0020: 00 f0 f0 08 18 ef 49 da 00 00 00 00 20 01 0f 00  ......I..... ...
...
  fffe0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  ffff0: ea 5b e0 00 f0 30 35 2f 32 34 2f 31 32 00 fc 00  .[...05/24/12...

Example:

sudo fwts romdump - 

..runs the romdump on your machine and dumps the output to stdout.