Hi Svetoslav,
On Wed Apr 4 23:17:46 CEST 2012, Svetoslav Trochev wrote: >>> - Flash ICE device with SPI support. >>> - Flash ICE device with LPC/FWH support. >>> - Serial emulation for LPC buses on a configurable I/O port with USB >>> output on the other side. >>> - Dual serial emulation for two LPC buses either on the same device or >>> with two identical devices and a fast bus in between. >>> - Serial emulation for PCI buses (i.e. PCI/serial card). >> >> Currently I am working towards items 1 and 3 of your list. Eventually I >> want to use this hardware to replace the flash content of my MSI Wind >> U100 netbook with free software (openec, coreboot, seabios, ipxe, grub2, >> etc). I want to keep my implementation sufficiently generic to allow for >> extensions like items 2, 4 and 5 of your list. > > I am also interested in item 1. [1] But looks like you are far ahead > of me. :) Currently I am waiting for my hardware to arrive. I ordered > Open Workbench Logic Sniffer [2]. Do you think I can help you in your > work? I am interested to see if we eventually can port the Papilio code base to the OLS. It may be challenging: the OLS has a rather limited power supply and not too many GPIO pins. I do not own one, so you could help me with this. For the time being I would recommend to learn more about writing proper RTL code in VHDL and play around with existing code examples [1]. You typically do not learn this stuff overnight, but I think it is worth the the effort. Regards, Paul [1] http://www.gadgetfactory.net/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
