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

[Joseph Smith]

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
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

Nice!

Horray for the Parallel Bitbang code :-)