On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:54:13 +0100, Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:17:18PM -0600, Ken.Fuchs@bench.com wrote:
Joseph Smith wrote:
I was thinking of renaming the LPCflasher Project to the Paraflasher Project. It will have the ability to flash more than just LPC chips so I think it should have a more generalized name hence the Paraflasher (Parallel Port Flasher) Project. What does everyone think? If no one strongly disagrees I will go ahead and change it.
Great, now can someone update the old LPCflasher page to link/point to the new Paraflasher page. The old LPCflasher page provides this clue:
There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page
We could do that (I removed the old LPCflasher wiki page), but is it really needed? The page explicitly said that there are no external links to it (or there shouldn't be) and this is all work in progress.
If possible, I'd like to get rid of that page ASAP (before more people bookmark it or link to it). If there are already many links to it we can add a redirect, but I'd like to avoid it. Everybody should bookmark the Paraflasher page.
Sorry If I caused any confusion. The only external link I am aware of is from my site which I will update immediately. Yes any bookmarks/links should be updated to reflect the Paraflasher page. Also note that the Project is still a work in progress and that until we get software up and running and can actually flash a chip, I wouldn't recommend it for the general public. That is unless you would like to help out software development. This is why it is an orphan page.
Update: I think I am going to use a parport user-space driver (ppdev). But, I am having a hard time understanding how the code should be laid out. The parport doc explains each component of the driver pretty well, but does not really explain how it should all go together. Any help on this would be much appreciated. For the initial test I am going to try a very simple LED blinking on the data lines.