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
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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=&SearchText=SOIC+clip

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.

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thomasg