[coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: External flasher support

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Fri May 8 13:23:20 CEST 2009


On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:57:10AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Very cool Carl-Daniel!
> > So all we would have to do is add "case FLASHER_PARAFLASHER" and it's
> > external r/w to each one of the swithes and we are good to go?
> >   
> 
> Correct. Additionally, you need a command line parameter which sets the
> flasher variable to FLASHER_PARAFLASHER, but that's it. I think Uwe has
> a patch to do that.

Yep, will send later, probably needs some adaptions.


> No problem. I need to dig up the LPC bus bitbang sources I got from Andy
> (LPCflasher developer), then someone can integrate them into flashrom.

Find my initial LPC bitbanging code attached, which I tried to use for
my USBprog-based LPC flasher prototype. It does _not_ work correctly
yet, but I don't know if it's a hardware issue or software issue.
However, the lpc.c code should be _mostly_ correct, I guess.


Uwe.
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