Hello, I was thinking of renaming the LPCflasher Project to the Paraflasher Project. It will have the ability to flash more than just LPC chips so I think it should have a more generalized name hence the Paraflasher (Parallel Port Flasher) Project. What does everyone think? If no one strongly disagrees I will go ahead and change it.
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:29:22 -0500, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org wrote:
Hello, I was thinking of renaming the LPCflasher Project to the Paraflasher Project. It will have the ability to flash more than just LPC chips so I think it should have a more generalized name hence the Paraflasher (Parallel Port Flasher) Project. What does everyone think? If no one strongly disagrees I will go ahead and change it.
Rename complete.
http://www.coreboot.org/Paraflasher
Joseph Smith wrote:
I was thinking of renaming the LPCflasher Project to the Paraflasher Project. It will have the ability to flash more than just LPC chips so I think it should have a more generalized name hence the Paraflasher (Parallel Port Flasher) Project. What does everyone think? If no one strongly disagrees I will go ahead and change it.
Great, now can someone update the old LPCflasher page to link/point to the new Paraflasher page. The old LPCflasher page provides this clue:
There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:17:18PM -0600, Ken.Fuchs@bench.com wrote:
Joseph Smith wrote:
I was thinking of renaming the LPCflasher Project to the Paraflasher Project. It will have the ability to flash more than just LPC chips so I think it should have a more generalized name hence the Paraflasher (Parallel Port Flasher) Project. What does everyone think? If no one strongly disagrees I will go ahead and change it.
Great, now can someone update the old LPCflasher page to link/point to the new Paraflasher page. The old LPCflasher page provides this clue:
There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page
We could do that (I removed the old LPCflasher wiki page), but is it really needed? The page explicitly said that there are no external links to it (or there shouldn't be) and this is all work in progress.
If possible, I'd like to get rid of that page ASAP (before more people bookmark it or link to it). If there are already many links to it we can add a redirect, but I'd like to avoid it. Everybody should bookmark the Paraflasher page.
Uwe.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:54:13 +0100, Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:17:18PM -0600, Ken.Fuchs@bench.com wrote:
Joseph Smith wrote:
I was thinking of renaming the LPCflasher Project to the Paraflasher Project. It will have the ability to flash more than just LPC chips so I think it should have a more generalized name hence the Paraflasher (Parallel Port Flasher) Project. What does everyone think? If no one strongly disagrees I will go ahead and change it.
Great, now can someone update the old LPCflasher page to link/point to the new Paraflasher page. The old LPCflasher page provides this clue:
There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page
We could do that (I removed the old LPCflasher wiki page), but is it really needed? The page explicitly said that there are no external links to it (or there shouldn't be) and this is all work in progress.
If possible, I'd like to get rid of that page ASAP (before more people bookmark it or link to it). If there are already many links to it we can add a redirect, but I'd like to avoid it. Everybody should bookmark the Paraflasher page.
Sorry If I caused any confusion. The only external link I am aware of is from my site which I will update immediately. Yes any bookmarks/links should be updated to reflect the Paraflasher page. Also note that the Project is still a work in progress and that until we get software up and running and can actually flash a chip, I wouldn't recommend it for the general public. That is unless you would like to help out software development. This is why it is an orphan page.
Update: I think I am going to use a parport user-space driver (ppdev). But, I am having a hard time understanding how the code should be laid out. The parport doc explains each component of the driver pretty well, but does not really explain how it should all go together. Any help on this would be much appreciated. For the initial test I am going to try a very simple LED blinking on the data lines.
Uwe Hermann wrote:
We could do that (I removed the old LPCflasher wiki page), but is it really needed? The page explicitly said that there are no external links to it (or there shouldn't be) and this is all work in progress.
If possible, I'd like to get rid of that page ASAP (before more people bookmark it or link to it). If there are already many links to it we can add a redirect, but I'd like to avoid it. Everybody should bookmark the Paraflasher page.
Bookmarking is not the biggest problem here.
Most people would find LPCFlasher via Goggle:
http://www.google.com/search?q=LPCFlasher&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t... .mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Sorry, there are already dozens of links to the LPCFlasher Wiki page, though obviously not every hit in this search includes one.
A redirect may be the only option now. When new original, content to the LPCFlasher page is added, a reference to LPCFlasher being the original name of ParaFlasher would in addition be required.
This mess is the result of the coreboot mailing list being archived and mirrored on many different servers.
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:32:12 -0600, Ken.Fuchs@bench.com wrote:
Uwe Hermann wrote:
We could do that (I removed the old LPCflasher wiki page), but is it really needed? The page explicitly said that there are no external links to it (or there shouldn't be) and this is all work in progress.
If possible, I'd like to get rid of that page ASAP (before more people bookmark it or link to it). If there are already many links to it we can add a redirect, but I'd like to avoid it. Everybody should bookmark the Paraflasher page.
Bookmarking is not the biggest problem here.
Most people would find LPCFlasher via Goggle:
http://www.google.com/search?q=LPCFlasher&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t... .mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Sorry, there are already dozens of links to the LPCFlasher Wiki page, though obviously not every hit in this search includes one.
A redirect may be the only option now. When new original, content to the LPCFlasher page is added, a reference to LPCFlasher being the original name of ParaFlasher would in addition be required.
This mess is the result of the coreboot mailing list being archived and mirrored on many different servers.
Most of those googles only point to the mailing list. Do a search of the link directly for more accurate results
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=org&q=www.coreboot.org/LPCfla...
which also point to a bunch of point to the mailing list and only a couple of links one of which is my site that I have already updated. I don't think we really have much to worry about. But id Uwe wants to put a redirect, feel free.
Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:34:53PM -0500, Joseph Smith wrote:
Most of those googles only point to the mailing list. Do a search of the link directly for more accurate results
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=org&q=www.coreboot.org/LPCfla...
which also point to a bunch of point to the mailing list and only a couple of links one of which is my site that I have already updated. I don't think we really have much to worry about. But id Uwe wants to put a redirect, feel free.
Done. It might be better to have a redirect, after all. It's not _that_ big of an issue...
Uwe.
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