On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:28:16 -0500, "Corey Osgood" corey.osgood@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org
wrote:
Hello, I think I am going to name this project the "LPCflasher". So I added up all the stuff I ordered to build it and it only came to $17.87. Yah, that's what I am talking about, a exellent bios development tool
for
under $20 dollars :-)
So let me get this straight...you're building a tool to flash LPC/FWH using a connection over the parallel port, with the ability to use USB power? This sounds familiar:
http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=3199
I guess you could compare it to a willem. But this will have the abilty to do so much more than a willem. You will be able to add cables and adapters
Like these? http://www.willem.org/nleprom/index.php?cPath=37&osCsid=c5a11qgisesljhfr...
I'm just trying to figure out if willem might be the way to go. I have one of the dual-power ones, but the only computer I have with a parallel port is a headless linux fileserver. The biggest problem with the willem is that the cost has gone through the roof (mine was around $25 shipped), and no native linux support (wine supposedly works, but I've never been able to get it to). Also, the write speed is, well, less then optimal. A full erase-write-verify cycle, on the box that I set up with windows 98 to test it, took about 3 minutes for a 256k chip, IIRC. But the guys that designed the willem presumably know what they're doing, not to doubt you but can you really do it better, cheaper?
like the Artecgroup programmable LPC dongle, and flash chips soldered on the board, etc.....
Programming flash chips on the board? Sounds interesting, I've got a couple boards kicking around with soldiered on PLCC flash that I'd like to toy with, but I'm too lazy to put sockets on the boards.
-Corey