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Keith Hui has posted comments on this change by Nico Huber. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/23053?usp=email )
Change subject: Fwd: Software info for Willem/EZOflash ......................................................................
Patch Set 2:
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PS2: We should make this code work with parallel flash chips too. Here's why.
It should be noted that ezoflash is a simplified version of willem that only handles parallel flash chips. Way back then I assembled one on a solderless breadboard to flash my infamous Apex AD-600A DVD player before building my PCB3B. While PCB3B has sockets for DIP SPI chips (and much more), it will not achieve the kind of throughput other solutions can, just because parallel port is so slow plus you are bit-banging SPI over it.
To be able to serve both parallel and SPI, we need to either have the code change protocol on the fly (ie. probe for parallel chips first, then SPI chips, or vice versa, then stick with the one for chip found), or have the user specify the protocol via programmer options.
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Keith Hui (Code Review)