[LinuxBIOS] SPI flash-chips

[Anton]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:53:43 -0400
Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:50:18PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > On 12.03.2007 16:29, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:22:12PM +0800, Anton wrote:
> > >> What are the means for recovering from faulty writes into SPI
> > >> flash-chip? Chip is not socketed ;) Moreover, it is soldered.
> > > 
> > > De-solder the chip, and put a socket on it. Richard Smith helped me out with
> > > that, we now have one m57sli-s4 board with a socket instead of the
> > > soldered-on chip. Requires quite a bit of skill and some good equipment
> > > though (heat-pencil or heat-gun and a good soldering iron).
> > 
> > Anton wrote about SPI (SOIC) flash, not LPC/FWH (PLCC32) flash. Are
> > there really matching sockets out there?
> 
> Yeah, sorry, my bad :( I was referring to LPC (PLCC32). I don't know anything
> about SPI.

O'k. Does anyone common w/ SPI flashing / BIOS Saviour tools out there?