On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' < valhalla-l@trueelena.org> wrote:
Hello
at FOSDEM this year I stopped at the Coreboot stand and I mentioned that I was having problems finding a 16 pin SOIC clip to flash coreboot on my thinkpad x200.
The person at the stand said that somebody in the project knows a chinese website which sells those clips at a significantly lower price than the usual ones, and that this information could be shared someway on the website / mailing list.
Does anybody know which website is that?
Thanks in advance
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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There are a number of chinese websites offering cheap SOIC clips, the most widely known is probably Alibaba/Aliexpress: http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=&SearchTex...
These are certainly much cheaper than the expensive ones available in the "west" - though I don't know if the quality is adequate. Should you order some it would probably be interesting to give feedback on that.
I don't see the need to explicitly promote a specific website on coreboots web presence as these are easy enough to find, and even the Pomona clips aren't that expensive anymore.
-- thomasg