<html>Thanks for your answers!<br /><br />Because I had an 10€ ebay coupon, I decided to buy a CH341A and a 10cm dupont female-female cable for just 0,74€ ;)<br /><br />Do you know how to check if the CH341A works correctly (like the correct voltage etc.)?<br /><br /><br />Am So. 25. November 2018 23:40 CET, Mike Banon <mikebdp2@gmail.com> schrieb:<br /> <blockquote type="cite" cite="CAK7947=fntmdw1R3DehO9HeWhS451X=QQOvVArWKam1Fu8ji0g@mail.gmail.com">Hi Nico, please could you confirm that FT2232H (link to which you have<br />provided) could work as a debug dongle? At "menuconfig" I only see<br />USBDEBUG_DONGLE_FTDI_FT232H but not FT2232H , don't know how similar<br />they are to each other<br /><br />@kinky_nekoboi:<br />> If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for flashing<br />Although there's a problem with<br />Raspi/Beaglebone/any-other-SBC(single.board.computer)-except-EOMA68 I<br />have to mention - they're running the non-free binary blobs, and<br />CH341A or Bus Pirate are better in this relation: CH341A - no firmware<br />at all, just a few config registers ; Bus Pirate - completely open<br />source firmware<br />On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:36 AM kinky_nekoboi<br /><kinky_nekoboi@bluetardis.de> wrote:<br />><br />> If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for flashing<br />><br />> Am 25. November 2018 22:55:56 MEZ schrieb Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>:<br />>><br />>> Hi Yannik,<br />>><br />>> On 25.11.18 20:05, Yannik Catalinac wrote:<br />>>><br />>>> For the SPI programmer I decided to use a CH341A, but when I search for<br />>>> it there are different CH341A. Which one should I buy?<br />>><br />>><br />>> It shouldn't matter as long as it says to be compatible to SPI 25<br />>> series. There were reports about bad batches of every kind (e.g.<br />>> wrong voltage regulator), FWIW. So there's always a risk. I would<br />>> pick one with a location in Europe (i.e. not China) so you don't<br />>> wait weeks and then realize you got a bad one. I have one with a<br />>> black board btw. that works fine.<br />>><br />>> As you asked for a German shop below, here[1] is a more expensive<br />>> alternative to the CH341A. 5x the cost, up to 15x the speed (and<br />>> can also work as a USB debugging device with coreboot; needs another<br />>> TTL level UART for the other end, though).<br />>><br />>>><br />>>> Which cables do you recommend? I read that I should use short ones, but<br />>>> which cables exactly dou you recommend? A link to a german shop would be<br />>>> very, very helpful!<br />>><br />>><br />>> Reichelt has some rather expensive ones[2]. Work for me but I can't say<br />>> if they are any better than random ones from eBay. For the latter search<br />>> for `10cm dupont female-female` (Buchse-Buchse).<br />>><br />>> Hope that helps,<br />>> Nico<br />>><br />>> [1]<br />>> https://www.elv.de/elv-highspeed-mini-usb-modul-um-ft2232h-komplettbausatz.html<br />>> Also needs a Mini-B (not the popular Micro-B) USB cable in case you<br />>> don't have a spare one.<br />>> [2] https://www.reichelt.de/<br />>> Search for: steckboard lbb<br />><br />> --<br />> coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org<br />> https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot</blockquote><br /> </html>