Hi, just a quick announcement I totally forgot to send out to the probably most relevant places (coreboot + flashrom) about a little hardware project I have finished a while ago: openbiosprog-spi.
It's a USB-based SPI chip flasher hardware based on the FTDI FT2232H chip, all the gory details (including lots of photos) are at: http://randomprojects.org/wiki/Openbiosprog-spi http://hermann-uwe.de/blog/openbiosprog-spi-a-diy-open-hardware-and-free-software-usb-based-spi-bios-chip-flasher-using-flashrom The device is already supported by flashrom out of the box. It has a small DIP-8 socket to allow flashing DIP-8 SPI chips from newer mainboards externally (if they're in a socket). As an alternative you can also solder an 8-pin pin-header instead of the socket in order to connect to a soldered SO-8 chip on a mainboard directly using some wires. The hardware schematics and layouts were done using the open-source Kicad suite and they're CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed. All hardware files are available from here: git clone git://gitorious.org/openbiosprog/openbiosprog-spi.git Flashrom usage of the device looks like this: flashrom -p ft2232_spi:type=2232H,port=A -w foo.bin Have fun, Uwe. -- http://hermann-uwe.de | http://sigrok.org http://randomprojects.org | http://unmaintained-free-software.org -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
