Hi!
flashrom is a very nice tool. I'm using it to configure Lattice iCE40 FPGAs. These FPGAs uses an SPI configuration memory (M25P10-A in my case). To communicate with the flash I'm using an FTDI 2232H cable (my own version, supports 0.9 to 5 V signals). The software provided by Lattice works. But I had problems with the command line version of the tool (the GUI is fine). So I searched for solutions and found flashrom. I was able to flash the chip and start the FPGA without problems. Flashrom is really fast and very easy to use. Now I want to avoid some annoying details, and I thought about adding a couple of new options to flashrom.
My problem is that I need to control a system reset line. I can't access the SPI flash if the FPGA isn't in reset state (is directly connected to the SPI flash). It means that I must assert the reset line, do all the flashrom stuff and then deassert reset. This is quite easy to implement. In fact I could add a new "cable" to the ftdi.c file. But this won't solve similar problems. So I was thinking about adding options to the FTDI driver to control the initial and final state of the FTDI I/O lines. This is a little bit more complex, but will add support for a lot of situations.
So my questions are: 1) Is this kind of addition desired. 2) Which way is preferred? simple/limited, complex/versatile.
Regards, SET