[coreboot] [RFC] [flashrom] "accelerated" high-level external programmer functions and serial external programmer protocol

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 05.06.2009 17:08, Urja Rannikko wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 17:55, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> Which serial protocol are we talking about?
>>     
>
> The serial protocol between the (yet not existing) in-flashrom
> external serial programmer driver (summoned with eg. "flashrom -p
> serialprog=/dev/ttyS0,115200") and the ATmega168 (i originally had an
> mega88) that goes on the RS-232 cable.

Ah OK. The meaning of "serial protocol" was not clear to me. I thought
you meant a SPI variant.


> The point being that i want to
> be able to change the ATmega168 to the next cool programmer somebody
> creates without changing the flashrom part of the software, so i want
> to make a device-independent protocol.
>   

That would be neat.


> I actually have an ATmega328 with an ethernet interface (ENC28J60), so
> i thought that the next programmer i make might be ethernet based
> instead of serial, but with the same protocol.
>   

The turnaround times are probably similar to serial for single commands,
but I am pretty excited by this prospect.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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