Hi cemede,
Am 04.03.2012 14:20 schrieb cmd_:
Recently has appeared a ultra-cheap board named Raspberry Pi (perhaps you know http://www.raspberrypi.org/ ). This board has a powerful broadcom SoC that comes with USB, UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO ports... all for 25/35$, awsome. It could be a really versatile and powerful external/independent programmer for flashrom!
Just take a look here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals
The SPI bus could be used to program SPI flash chips (obviously) and GPIO for the other types. I propose two ideas, first one, support the board by flashrom software,
I already wrote a flashrom driver for the Raspberry Pi, I only need someone with hardware to test it.
second one, develop a daughter-board for the Raspberry-Pi to make a easy use of all (with sockets to program IC's or some buffers if necessary for other ones).
I hope the Gertboard will accomplish some of that functionality. Designing our own PCB would be possible, sure, but my first focus is on getting the driver tested.
Regards, Carl-Daniel