[flashrom] [PATCH] Add support for RayeR SPIPGM hardware.

[Joseph Smith]

On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:23:18 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 26.05.2010 16:31, Joseph Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:26:03 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>
>>> Add support for RayeR SPIPGM hardware as described in
>>> http://rayer.ic.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm
>>>
>>> Thanks go to Martin Rehak for giving me his SPIPGM source code as
>>> reference.
>>>
>>> Should work on all supported platforms (maybe even Windows, not sure
>>> about that), but you may have to unload any parport drivers on Linux to
>>> avoid any interactions between flashrom and other stuff
>>> accessing/watching the parallel port.
>>>
>>> Side note: I expect this to be slower than the original SPIPGM software
>>> because the flashrom SPI code has a few unnecessary delays which I'll
>>> eliminate in a separate patch.
>>>
>>> Tests of probing are sufficient for now. If probing fails, I will try
to
>>> fix it.
>>>
>>> Usage:
>>> flashrom -V -p rayerbitbangspi
>>>
>> Nice!
>>
>> Horray for the Parallel Bitbang code :-)
>>
> 
> Thanks. It's SPI bitbang code for the parallel port, so it won't help
> you if you want to support Parallel flash chips.
> 
Maybe not, but it is a step in the right direction :-)
Sorry I do not know enough about SPI to Ack this for you Carl-Daniel.

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
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