On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:45:05PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Ward Vandewege ward@gnu.org [070312 14:21]:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:15:58PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
I bought this programmer, and I think it is a really good deal: http://www.progshop.com/shop/programmer/galep/galep4.shtml it burns about everything, requires a non-usb parport though
What's the software situation Stefan? Free software support? Do you know of any programmers that are supported by free software?
Don't think any of them do, sorry :-(
I think the artec group LPC dongle comes with open source software, but that is a different model.
I assume you're referring to this
http://www.artecgroup.com/products/hardware-products/programmable-lpc-dongle...
Python code, usb device - I like this. It says it comes with an 'LPC cable'; any idea what that looks like? Presumably some sort of plcc adapter would still be required?
Some people on this list were talking about creating an open alternative to the bios savior, with more or less intelligence. (including Peter and me), but it did not work out yet.
Yeah, I remember that discussion. I do hope something comes out of that.
Richard Smith mentioned this ROM emulator to me:
http://www.tech-tools.com/er3.htm
The dos-based cli tools work under wine, he says. That's better than nothing, but still proprietary software of course, so not an option for the FSF.
Ironwood Electronics sells a "PLCC clip on base", an inverted PLCC socket that can be plugged on a soldered-in flash part. Together with a BIOS savior kind of device, this would be a really cool thing.
Oh! That's very interesting. So if you'd clip this onto an smd-soldered plcc chip (like on the m57sli-s4), and plug in a bios savior, would the bios savior allow you to switch between the on-board chip and the built-in bios savior chip?
Though I want to get my hands on a device I can use with the artec group LPC dongle. It has cool features, such as "console by rom write". You write some sequence to the flash chip/dongle and get a console on the other (USB) end... Pretty good stuff for a 150$ (no guarantee) device..
That's not a bad price at all!
Thanks, Ward.