On 20.11.2008 18:43, Joseph Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:03 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Thanks. I think flashrom support will be fairly easy to setup. We just >>> need to setup communications for a LPT port. >>> >> You need to implement a LPC protocol layer inside flashrom to do this. >> While I don't doubt that you can do this, it sure is quite a bit of >> effort. >> > > That's exactly what I plan to do Carl-Daniel (with everyones help of > course).
Great! > The windows software C source for the original program is > available for a reference point and it is very simple. We just need to > convert it to linux/flashrom language. What's the license of that software? > I plan on adding a L option to > flashrom for this. Probibly something like "-l /dev/lp0" > Can we use long options until we have decided on the final one-letter options? My suggestion for these external flashers would be to specify the name of the host/programmer like "--host=lpcflasher" and possibly "--interface=/dev/lp0". That way, we can restrict the probe sequences to those which are supported by a given programmer. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
