[flashrom] [PATCH] Add support for the Open Graphics Project card as a programmer
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Dec 3 15:53:06 CET 2010
On 03.12.2010 14:00, Mark Marshall wrote:
> You're right, the naming in the first patch was a little off.
> The problem is that I'm not really sure what name to use - OGP
> is the project, OGD1 is the first development card and OGA1 is
> the first real card (which is still in the future). I've moved
> to calling it OGP - in the scope of flashrom this seems like
> the best choice. IF we have multiple different cards then I can
> add a parameter to choose between them.
>
> I've also folded in your changes, and written a short entry
> for the man page.
>
Thanks for incorporating the review comments!
> Signed-off-by: Mark Marshall
>
Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
and committed with minor changes (cosmetics) in r1241.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
> On 01.12.2010 19:12, Mark Marshall wrote:
>
>> The attached patch adds support for the Open Graphics Project
>> development card, OGD1, as a SPI flash programmer. The project is in
>> the the process of designing and making a complete, open source,
>> graphics card. Check out http://wiki.opengraphics.org.
>>
>> The first development card is a PCI add in card containing a couple of
>> FPGAs and a couple of serial flash chips (amongst other things). The
>> FPGA's are called XP10 and S3 (their part numbers). The XP10 contains
>> it's own flash and does not need to be programmed by flashrom - it
>> ensures that the device can enumerate on the PCI bus without needing
>> further configuration.
>>
>> The larger FPGA is the S3. This is configured from a large serial
>> flash (2M bytes). The second serial flash is used to store the VGA
>> BIOS. It is smaller (128K bytes).
>>
>> The attached patch adds support for programming either of the two
>> serial flash chips. They are both serial SPI devices.
>>
>> The programmer device takes one configuration option which selects
>> which of the two flash chips is accessed. This must be set to either
>> "cprom" or "bprom". (The project refers to the two chips as "cprom" /
>> "bprom", "s3" and "bios" are more readable alternatives).
>>
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