[coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 20.11.2008 16:25, Joseph Smith wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:35:06 -0800, "David Hendricks"
> <david.hendricks at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> So far so good. I'm looking forward to reading up more on flashrom
>> support, but I suspect that it will come more
>> or less automatically once all the
>> hardware is hooked up and the machine is booting linux.
>>
>>     
> Thanks. I think flashrom support will be fairly easy to setup. We just need
> to setup communications for a LPT port.
>   

You need to implement a LPC protocol layer inside flashrom to do this.
While I don't doubt that you can do this, it sure is quite a bit of
effort. That's also the reason why the homemade SPI flasher at
http://rayer.ic.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm is not supported yet (SPI layer is
missing).

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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