On 20.11.2008 21:48, Joseph Smith wrote:
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:
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...
We could give that person time to respond. He/she may be on vacation or have other reasons to delay an answer.
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 :-)
That was my intention. We could use "--host=rayerspiflasher" for that homebrew SPI flasher. It would certainly help if flashrom became the default Linux tool for homebrew flashers.
Regards, Carl-Daniel