The em100 is the gold standard in my experience. I would start there, assuming you can get a clip onto the SPI part, or there is a header for a cable.
It's great see you here again! On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM Hamish Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Coreboot community, > > After a rather long hiatus (my last commits to LinuxBIOS were in 2005) - > my work had moved me to PPC/MIPS and now mainly ARM architectures, so have > been using u-boot for many years. > > The company I work for has a large range of embedded devices, for which we > use a common platform for ARM devices, and we have completed a major > re-work on this platform to ensure RED and CRA compliance. I have been > tasked with migrating a range of industrial embedded x86 devices to our > common platform, to prepare these products for CRA compliance. There are > many thousands of these x86 devices in the field, using either Q7 or > COM-Express modules with various generations (Bay Trail, Apollo Lake and > Elkhart Lake) of Intel processors. > > My 2 concerns are boot speed and BIOS updates. Devices with Bay Trail and > Apollo Lake SoC's have customised BIOS's and it appears as though the BIOS > vendor simply forked their BIOS code in 2015 and no security updates have > been made at all - even though they have made modifications to these BIOS's > as recently as November 2025. Of course attempting to find real information > about this is impossible. > > I have been looking through the Coreboot documentation in a lot of detail > in preparation, but would like to ask for some friendly advice about > de-bricking these devices when I start trying to flash coreboot into them! > All of these modules have SO-8 SPI flash devices on them, and I assume a > good SPI flash programmer would be useful, I also guess for development > that an SPI flash emulator could be very useful. Could anyone provide me > recommendations for decent devices for this purpose? > > Hamish > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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