[LinuxBIOS] Nifty device for SPI chips

[Bari Ari]

Richard Smith wrote:
> Whats your time frame for the SPI stuff?  I'd love to use it, especially 
> since it would be fully supported under Linux.   But I sort of need the 
> functionality now.  I could probably write some code (C though, not 
> java) to deal with the SPI programming but I don't have much VHDL 
> experience and coming up to speed on VHDL is a bit outside my time frame.

The PLAICE wiki got Slashdotted earlier today: 
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/01/0017244

The SPI bus analyzer is working. SPI Flash programming and FLASH 
emulation hasn't been started yet. The logic analyzer currently runs 
without the need of the MicroBlaze cpu. I was considering porting the 
programming routines from Flashrom to the PLAICE.

We are getting lots of requests from developers to join the project. 
It's probably a few weeks away from being ready.

-Bari