On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Tom Sylla <[email protected]> wrote: > This will definitely work, a couple of years ago, we researched this > exact setup. Our plan was to put headers on the motherboards were we > deisnging, to have an easy de-bricking mechanism. A co-worker wrote a > windows SPI flasher in a day or so. I have seen that exact device used > to program SPI ROMs, as well as master JTAG, and program Altera FPGAs > (they have a generic bit-bang mode too). It works quite well.
Thanks for confirming. > I think I have sent these to the list before, but DLP Design makes > pretty cheap little adapter boards ($20-40), including one for the > 2232 series: > > http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb/2232m.shtml I must have over looked it. After reading your mail, I browsed ftdi's site again and found it there too. The module seems convenient to use. I am contacting a local ftdi distributor at the moment. > That with a protoboard and an appropriate socket is all you need for a > SPI programmer. If you have a SPI programming socket on your > motherboard, it is even easier. It should be pretty fast too. Any one know about this? http://www.wieson.com/product_show_lst.php?PID=858&TypeName=Connectors&subTypeName=SPI I think it is very useful for soldered SPI flashes. yu ning -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
