[flashrom] Raspberry Pi support as a programmer

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi cemede,

Am 04.03.2012 14:20 schrieb cmd_:
> Recently has appeared a ultra-cheap board named Raspberry Pi (perhaps you
> know http://www.raspberrypi.org/ ). This board has a powerful broadcom SoC
> that comes with USB, UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO ports... all for 25/35$, awsome.
> It could be a really versatile and powerful external/independent programmer
> for flashrom!
>
> Just take a look here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals
>
> The SPI bus could be used to program SPI flash chips (obviously) and GPIO
> for the other types.
> I propose two ideas, first one, support the board by flashrom software,

I already wrote a flashrom driver for the Raspberry Pi, I only need
someone with hardware to test it.


> second one, develop a daughter-board for the Raspberry-Pi to make a easy
> use of all (with sockets to program IC's or some buffers if necessary for
> other ones).

I hope the Gertboard will accomplish some of that functionality.
Designing our own PCB would be possible, sure, but my first focus is on
getting the driver tested.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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