Dear Daniel,
Please see my comments inline...
On 03/11/2018 04:32, Daniel Gröber wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 12:10:25AM +0100, Angel Pons wrote:
Is it me, or is that thing a SPI flash chip on a PCB plus a few transistors? It seems like copying the PCB design is rather doable, or am I missing something?
Indeed, very doable, but tedious work ;)
Here you go:
https://github.com/DanielG/asmb4 https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/jZLoDQ3Y
This is fantastic, thank you!!
I've been intending to do something very similar to this. So far I have spent most of 2018 on my career change -- thankfully this is now done, and should be more benefectial in the long run.
Cloning these modules would be very liberating, based on my experiences so far. Thank you for your work. Please keep me in the loop for future developments. Nevertheless, I'll continue to follow your work, and I will be available to contribute financially if appropriate.
I have some ASMB4- and ASMB5-iKVM modules, on which I have been doing OpenBMC experiments for the D16 and D8. This is now music to my ears :-)
I had the schematics lying around on paper for a while now but I was too lazy to digitize them until now. The design is completely untested, I just ordered some boards though so we'll see.
If there's any possibility that you might have one or two spare prototypes or clones to send me for evaluation, please let me know :-)
I'm happy to cover costs, plus some extra money to contribute to further development or your time and labor. This is an important project and I am prepared to put money on the table to help move it forward.
FWIW if anyone is interrested in gettingd some assembled boards I might do a small production run.
Yes. As I already mentioned, I can contribute financially to support libre-friendly designs. I am also keen to help to verify designs and actual prototypes, conduct formal(?) methods for testing, and to help to load these modules in UAT, STAGING, or PROD environments.
Kind regards,
Andrew