On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:45:05PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070312 14:21]: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:15:58PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > > I bought this programmer, and I think it is a really good deal: > > > http://www.progshop.com/shop/programmer/galep/galep4.shtml > > > it burns about everything, requires a non-usb parport though > > > > What's the software situation Stefan? Free software support? Do you know of > > any programmers that are supported by free software? > > Don't think any of them do, sorry :-( > > I think the artec group LPC dongle comes with open source software, but > that is a different model.
I assume you're referring to this http://www.artecgroup.com/products/hardware-products/programmable-lpc-dongle.html Python code, usb device - I like this. It says it comes with an 'LPC cable'; any idea what that looks like? Presumably some sort of plcc adapter would still be required? > Some people on this list were talking about creating an open > alternative to the bios savior, with more or less intelligence. > (including Peter and me), but it did not work out yet. Yeah, I remember that discussion. I do hope something comes out of that. Richard Smith mentioned this ROM emulator to me: http://www.tech-tools.com/er3.htm The dos-based cli tools work under wine, he says. That's better than nothing, but still proprietary software of course, so not an option for the FSF. > Ironwood Electronics sells a "PLCC clip on base", an inverted PLCC > socket that can be plugged on a soldered-in flash part. Together with a > BIOS savior kind of device, this would be a really cool thing. Oh! That's very interesting. So if you'd clip this onto an smd-soldered plcc chip (like on the m57sli-s4), and plug in a bios savior, would the bios savior allow you to switch between the on-board chip and the built-in bios savior chip? > Though I want to get my hands on a device I can use with the artec group > LPC dongle. It has cool features, such as "console by rom write". You > write some sequence to the flash chip/dongle and get a console on the > other (USB) end... Pretty good stuff for a 150$ (no guarantee) device.. That's not a bad price at all! Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
