On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Patrick Georgi patrick@georgi-clan.de wrote:
Am 25.05.2011 09:57, schrieb Thomas Gstädtner:
Just a little FYI for those interested in this board: As of AMDs announcement to support coreboot even more, they listed the H8SCM-F-O (commonly sold as H8SCM-F which appears to be the same in any case) as socket C32 reference board for coreboot. On pictures it often shows a SO16 flash socket - unfortunately I have not been able to acquire one that really has the socket. One retailer was even nice enough to check his stock for me, every single board has the flash soldered on.
Some boards have an SPI flash header where you can attach an external flash programmer (one low cost option would be the bus pirate at ~$30).
Without a header it might still be possible to apply a programmer to the chip directly using clips, but that's less convenient (and has the risk of failing if the board circuitry messes up the signal too much)
I generally find external flashers more convenient than having to take care that I flash the right flash with the right image at all times and then hot swapping chips.
I think that the board was developed with an external programmer and testclip method of flashing.
Marc