[coreboot] useful hardware - dip8 to soic8 adapter

[Urja Rannikko]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 15:02, Carl-Daniel
Hailfinger<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 19.06.2009 13:54, Joseph Smith wrote:
>> They also make some really cool DIP8 to flash memory adapters.
>> http://www.epboard.com/eproducts/parts/EMC-0015.htm
>>
>> Hmm that has got me thinking, could flash memory be used to replace SPI?
>>
>
> Similar protocol for some variants, but a totally different command set.
> In short, unusable for onboard firmware.
>

All one would really need is some fast µC (enough fast to keep up with
mb SPI and convert the command set) with two SPI interfaces to convert
SD/MMC to motherboard SPI. That would be really cool btw, if it would
work :)

-- 
urjaman