Paraflasher Competition

[Joseph Smith]

Looks like the Paraflasher has some competition:

http://cgi.ebay.com/NANO-BIOS-Programmer-for-PC-M-B-BIOS-repairing_W0QQitemZ...

Possible external flasher for flashrom?

Although the Paraflasher is way better by design :-)

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

[added flashrom to CC]

On 19.01.2010 15:44, Joseph Smith wrote:
> Looks like the Paraflasher has some competition:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/NANO-BIOS-Programmer-for-PC-M-B-BIOS-repairing_W0QQitemZ...
>
> Possible external flasher for flashrom?

Doable, but painful. That thing is a parallel port flasher and uses USB
only as power supply...
> Although the Paraflasher is way better by design :-)

Sure. By the way, what's the status of Paraflasher? Does it work for
flashing? Any interest in adding flashrom support for it (easy task)?

Does someone want to check the Nano BIOS Programmer support list against
the flashrom support list? Would be cool if we could list all chips they do.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Joseph Smith]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:50:33 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
 wrote:
> [added flashrom to CC]
>
> On 19.01.2010 15:44, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > Looks like the Paraflasher has some competition:

http://cgi.ebay.com/NANO-BIOS-Programmer-for-PC-M-B-BIOS-repairing_W0QQitemZ...
> > Possible external flasher for flashrom?
>
> Doable, but painful. That thing is a parallel port flasher and uses USB
> only as power supply...

Umm, so is Paraflasher...
> > Although the Paraflasher is way better by design :-)
>
> Sure. By the way, what's the status of Paraflasher? Does it work for
> flashing? Any interest in adding flashrom support for it (easy task)?

New Years resolution to get it up and running asap. This baby was meant for
flashrom. It should be relatively easy now that flashrom supports external
programmers. Pretty much just need to setup the parallel port interface.

Also if that NANO BIOS Programmer can do SPI, then my assumptions about
Paraflasher doing SPI are 100% correct :-)