Re: [flashrom] [PATCH] Add support for RayeR SPIPGM hardware.

[Joseph Smith]

On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:23:18 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
 wrote:
> On 26.05.2010 16:31, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:26:03 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > > Add support for RayeR SPIPGM hardware as described in
> > > http://rayer.ic.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm
> > >
> > > Thanks go to Martin Rehak for giving me his SPIPGM source code as
> > > reference.
> > >
> > > Should work on all supported platforms (maybe even Windows, not sure
> > > about that), but you may have to unload any parport drivers on Linux to
> > > avoid any interactions between flashrom and other stuff
> > > accessing/watching the parallel port.
> > >
> > > Side note: I expect this to be slower than the original SPIPGM software
> > > because the flashrom SPI code has a few unnecessary delays which I'll
> > > eliminate in a separate patch.
> > >
> > > Tests of probing are sufficient for now. If probing fails, I will try

to
> > > fix it.
> > >
> > > Usage:
> > > flashrom -V -p rayerbitbangspi
> >
> > Nice!
> >
> > Horray for the Parallel Bitbang code :-)
>
> Thanks. It's SPI bitbang code for the parallel port, so it won't help
> you if you want to support Parallel flash chips.

Maybe not, but it is a step in the right direction :-)
Sorry I do not know enough about SPI to Ack this for you Carl-Daniel.