[flashrom] Re: Unknown programmer "ft2232_spi"

[Anastasia Klimchuk]

Hi Michael,

Last time I set up environment to build flashrom, I installed all these in
order:

pciutils
libpci-dev
libusb-dev
libusb-1.0-0-dev
libjaylink0
libjaylink-dev
cmake
libftdi1-dev

I haven’t flashed anything with ft2232_spi (however this programmer
builds), maybe not entirely relevant to you? But this is sufficient to have
the choice of ft2232_spi, as I can see:

-p | --programmer <name>[:<param>] specify the programmer device. One of
    internal, dummy, mec1308, nic3com, nicrealtek, nicnatsemi, gfxnvidia,
    raiden_debug_spi, drkaiser, satasii, atahpt, atavia, atapromise, it8212,
    ft2232_spi, serprog, buspirate_spi, dediprog, developerbox, ene_lpc,
    rayer_spi, pony_spi, nicintel, nicintel_spi, nicintel_eeprom, ogp_spi,
    satamv, linux_mtd, linux_spi, lspcon_i2c_spi, realtek_mst_i2c_spi,
    usbblaster_spi, mstarddc_spi, pickit2_spi, ch341a_spi, digilent_spi,
    jlink_spi, stlinkv3_spi.

Manually editing dependency in control file, wow this is so cool! I
wouldn’t be able to do such a thing by myself. So I was looking for a
sequence of packages that works.

Anastasia.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:03 AM Michael Leukert - AMPEGON <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hello Nico
>
> Thank you for your assistance and the useful hints at your link (
> https://flashrom.org/Downloads).  After some struggles with the
> prerequisites, we were finally able to install it from source (with FTDI
> support), and our program is now working.
>
> I don't have a lot of experience with package managers, but it seems to me
> that we had to recursively uninstall and reinstall an unreasonably large
> number of packages by hand in order to satisfy the exact version
> requirements for each prerequisite of flashrom.  In fact we destroyed our
> ubuntu installation several times and had to restore from image before
> finding our way through the recursive mess of dependencies to a working
> solution.
>
> I specifically want to mention that it was actually impossible without
> manipulating one of the packages' recursive dependencies: libudev-dev
> (required by direct dependency libpci-dev).  We literally had to unpack
> libudev-dev_229-4ubuntu21.27_i386.deb, manually edit the dependency version
> for libudev1 in the control file, and then re-pack it as a .deb file (see
> "My guess is..." and " This works, and probably..." at
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/779300/cant-install-libudev-dev-on-ubuntu-16...).
> It was simply impossible without manipulating this dependency.  Is this
> normal?  Or even safe?  If yes on both questions, would it make sense to
> place a hint about this at https://flashrom.org/Downloads ?
>
> In any case, thank you for providing this excellent software and the
> prompt support!
>
> Cheers from Switzerland
>
> Michael
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Nico Huber 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2021 17:30
> An: Michael Leukert - AMPEGON ;
> [e-mail]
> Betreff: Re: [flashrom] Unknown programmer "ft2232_spi"
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> On 05.07.21 18:54, Michael Leukert - AMPEGON wrote:
> > Do you have any idea why our flashrom v0.9.9 won't accept ft2232_spi as
>
> a programmer?
>
> flashrom's build process is quite flexible. It's very likely that this
> Ubuntu package was simply build without FTDI support.
> > Surprisingly, even the man page claims that ft2232_spi is supported:
>
> Alas, the manpage is not automatically adapted to the build options.
>
> You can build flashrom from source, here are some hints[1]. Basically,
> after installing the mentioned prerequisites, you download the flashrom
> source
>
> $ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/flashrom.git
>
> and build it with
>
> $ cd flashrom
>   $ make
>
> If you want to install it, also
>
> $ sudo make install
>
> If you don't install it, you'll have to always specify the path to the
> program, e.g.
>
> $ ./flashrom -p ...
>
> or
>
> $ ~/flashrom/flashrom -p ...
>
> Hope that helps,
> Nico
>
> [1] https://flashrom.org/Download
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