Not likely those PCBs have gone through much testing on assembly line, how about 4...
From about 100-200 reviews for these cheap " aliexpress boards " so
far I've found just one negative that's quality related and not shipping related ( FTDI chip was badly soldered ) - quite a low failure rate. These boards are very simple and their failure rate mostly depends on the failure rate of FTDI chips and their soldering quality
It writes just the same you get with cbmem -c utility, assuming you
can reach OS on the DUT.
Didn't know that, but its' too late ;)
Best regards, Mike Banon
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Mike Banon mikebdp2@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kyosti, Thank you very much for your reply!
I will try to get a couple of these FT232H boards: perhaps just 1 is required for the successful setup, but these boards are not common (just 15 or 20 search results) so maybe its' a good idea to take 2 ;)
Not likely those PCBs have gone through much testing on assembly line, how about 4...
If this FT232H board works, it would be an ideal replacement both for commercial AMIDebug Rx / Ajays NET20DC (because much cheaper) and FX2LP (because no DIY will be required). Maybe this info could even be added to the official coreboot wiki, but I don't have an account there and it seems hard to get, so I'm using the DangerousPrototypes wiki
It won't become a compatible replacement, as you would need to modify the (proprietary) software of both device-under-test and the host. FT232H could be made to work with linux kernel early_printk=dbgp but I don't think anyone has done that.
FX2LP approach was able to mimic the net20dc USB descriptors, including the special response of debug feature and endpoint number assignment.
Will write an update when I'd get the boards and test them with AMD G505S laptop. I'm curious what Lenovo G505S is writing to the coreboot log while it boots
It writes just the same you get with cbmem -c utility, assuming you can reach OS on the DUT.
Kyösti