Re: [coreboot] Hardware needed for flashing a T530

[Mike Banon]

Hi Nico, please could you confirm that FT2232H (link to which you have
provided) could work as a debug dongle? At "menuconfig" I only see
USBDEBUG_DONGLE_FTDI_FT232H but not FT2232H , don't know how similar
they are to each other

@kinky_nekoboi:
> If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for flashing

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