Hi,
I'm trying to find out which external programmers should be supported next.
1. There was talk of an AVR-based new programmer using the serprog protocol on IRC by someone with the nick "coldelectrons", but I have no idea if he/she is reading this mail. IMHO more hardware using the serprog protocol is always a good idea.
2. All those Willem/Sivava variants. People regularly request those, but I don't think anyone in here owns the hardware.
3. RayeR's SPIPGM. I have a preliminary patch which could work, but I don't have the hardware. Will send the patch to the list soon.
4. LPC^2, Milksop, CheapLPC and other programmers from the Xbox modding community.
5. Dozens of SPI programmer hardware projects scattered over the net. Too many to count, and I'm not sure which of them has more than one user.
In general, it seems creating a new programmer hardware design is like writing IRC clients: A nice way to get started in the field. I have no problems merging flashrom support for all of them, but I won't implement support for all of them myself.
Regards, Carl-Daniel