Hi Simon, Thank you for taking the time to respond and provide an answer.
I'm going to get a CH341A Programmer and see if I can run flashrom on it. If there are any operational guidelines for such ? Is there still any available jobs on the website (https://www.flashrom.org/Easyprojects) that I may try to complete? Regards, Hui From: Buhrow, Simon <simon.buh...@sieb-meyer.de> Sent: 11 March 2022 14:29 To: Anastasia Klimchuk <a...@chromium.org>; Hui Xiang <zavier2...@outlook.com>; flashrom <flashrom@flashrom.org> Subject: AW: [flashrom] Re: Questions About Flashrom Of Gsoc Hi Hui, >> My current devices are a Windows 11 laptop (processor 11370H, Tiger >> Lake-H35) and a Mac. Is it possible for me to try out some patches on my >> computer? Also, could you provide me with any resources or introductions to >> chip packaging (DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8...)? As it´s never a good idea to experiment with the workhorse itself, I would recommend to do tests on extra hardware. (There might be some things you can test with software dummies, someone else must tell you about that). A very cheap programmer often mentioned here is the CH341A Programmer, however there are many other affordable programmers with ftdi chips, the raspberry pi and other manufactures as well (https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_programmers). About basics of packaging you can find on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_integrated_circuit_packaging_types . Flashrom itself typically does not care about packaging (as you can see in flashchips.c are no packaging info). That´s only important for wiring between programmer hardware and flash chip. If you have a programmer with a DIP-Socket on board, you can use any supported Flash in a DIP package (with <= pins than the socket). >> and decided to start my job with "Find chips without voltage data." What can >> I do about it? I checked the “.voltage” of the chips given in flashchips.c and I couldn´t find any chip without voltage data in flashchips.c So I think it´s obsolete. Could anyone with wr-permission correct this article? (or tell me where I´m wrong… :-) ). >> Is it necessary for me to install an IRC client on my computer? I think the webclient works fine so far, however there might be some benefits of having it installed locally. Hope this helps, Simon
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