On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:04:18 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
On 20.11.2008 18:43, Joseph Smith wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:03 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
Thanks. I think flashrom support will be fairly easy to setup. We just need to setup communications for a LPT port.
You need to implement a LPC protocol layer inside flashrom to do this. While I don't doubt that you can do this, it sure is quite a bit of effort.
That's exactly what I plan to do Carl-Daniel (with everyones help of course).
Great!
The windows software C source for the original program is available for a reference point and it is very simple. We just need to convert it to linux/flashrom language.
What's the license of that software?
Not sure there is no license in any of the headers, and we can't get a response from the author...
I plan on adding a L option to flashrom for this. Probibly something like "-l /dev/lp0"
Can we use long options until we have decided on the final one-letter options? My suggestion for these external flashers would be to specify the name of the host/programmer like "--host=lpcflasher" and possibly "--interface=/dev/lp0". That way, we can restrict the probe sequences to those which are supported by a given programmer.
Hmm, that is a possibility, that also opens the door for other programmers to use flashrom :-)