[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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