Hi, On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 05:26:13PM -0700, Svetoslav Trochev wrote: > I have old board that uses i82802AB chip to store the BIOS. I found > spare chip and I am planning to test flashrom and coreboot on it. I am > still waiting for the adapter to the external programmer I have, so I > was wondering if I can jump start my work by hot-swapping the chips > when I kill the firmware with my testing.
Should work in theory, yes. But make sure the chips are really (electrically) compatible and that you write a "good" image on your second chip first and boot-test with the second chip successfully. Then store the second chip away somewhere safe until you need it. Uwe. -- http://hermann-uwe.de | http://sigrok.org http://randomprojects.org | http://unmaintained-free-software.org _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
