[coreboot] Homemaid LPC flasher

[Joseph Smith]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:43:55 -0500, "Corey Osgood" <corey.osgood at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:10 PM, <Ken.Fuchs at bench.com> wrote:
> 
>> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>
>> >> By the way, there's also a homemade SPI flasher which should be way
>> >> easier to support from flashrom:
>> >> http://rayer.ic.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm
>>
>> Joseph Smith wrote:
>>
>> > That's really cool for SPI but I am more interested in PLCC32
>> > fwh chips....
>>
>> FWH is virtually obsolete.  At least, no one is using it for new
>> designs.  Have you seen any _new_ designs with LPC/FHW lately?
> 
> 
> Yes, most Via C7-based Mini/Nano/Pico-ITX boards use LPC flash.
> 
> -Corey
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> SPI NOR flash support in flashrom would be far more important
>> for coreboot to be relevant in the future.
>>
I'm not saying it couldn't support SPI, in fact I'm sure it probibly could.
I'm just telling why I am interested in persuing this project, am what I am
going to use it for. Along the lines if a modification for SPI happens,
great :-)

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
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