Nico Huber wrote Did you check that with an STM or how can you tell?
CH341A is made by Jiangsu QinHeng Ltd., and there's a datasheet - http://www.anok.ceti.pl/download/ch341ds1.pdf - according to which this CH341A has just a few config registers, no internal memory for any firmware - and these CH341A based programmers don't have any extra memory chips on board, that means "the evil firmware" has nowhere to hide
Peter Stuge wrote: You can't possibly be equating Broadcom to TI in terms of openness?
Indeed TI is more open than Broadcom, but still not completely open. I don't know any single board computer that has been endorsed by Free Software Foundation, that means any of the existing SBCs require the non-free blobs to function. Maybe EOMA68 could become the first. On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 2:34 AM Nico Huber nico.h@gmx.de wrote:
On 25.11.18 23:40, Mike Banon wrote:
If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for flashing
Although there's a problem with Raspi/Beaglebone/any-other-SBC(single.board.computer)-except-EOMA68 I have to mention - they're running the non-free binary blobs, and CH341A or Bus Pirate are better in this relation: CH341A - no firmware at all
Did you check that with an STM or how can you tell?
Nico