Hi Nico, please could you confirm that FT2232H (link to which you have provided) could work as a debug dongle? At "menuconfig" I only see USBDEBUG_DONGLE_FTDI_FT232H but not FT2232H , don't know how similar they are to each other
@kinky_nekoboi: > If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for > flashing Although there's a problem with Raspi/Beaglebone/any-other-SBC(single.board.computer)-except-EOMA68 I have to mention - they're running the non-free binary blobs, and CH341A or Bus Pirate are better in this relation: CH341A - no firmware at all, just a few config registers ; Bus Pirate - completely open source firmware On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:36 AM kinky_nekoboi <kinky_neko...@bluetardis.de> wrote: > > If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for > flashing > > Am 25. November 2018 22:55:56 MEZ schrieb Nico Huber <nic...@gmx.de>: >> >> Hi Yannik, >> >> On 25.11.18 20:05, Yannik Catalinac wrote: >>> >>> For the SPI programmer I decided to use a CH341A, but when I search for >>> it there are different CH341A. Which one should I buy? >> >> >> It shouldn't matter as long as it says to be compatible to SPI 25 >> series. There were reports about bad batches of every kind (e.g. >> wrong voltage regulator), FWIW. So there's always a risk. I would >> pick one with a location in Europe (i.e. not China) so you don't >> wait weeks and then realize you got a bad one. I have one with a >> black board btw. that works fine. >> >> As you asked for a German shop below, here[1] is a more expensive >> alternative to the CH341A. 5x the cost, up to 15x the speed (and >> can also work as a USB debugging device with coreboot; needs another >> TTL level UART for the other end, though). >> >>> >>> Which cables do you recommend? I read that I should use short ones, but >>> which cables exactly dou you recommend? A link to a german shop would be >>> very, very helpful! >> >> >> Reichelt has some rather expensive ones[2]. Work for me but I can't say >> if they are any better than random ones from eBay. For the latter search >> for `10cm dupont female-female` (Buchse-Buchse). >> >> Hope that helps, >> Nico >> >> [1] >> https://www.elv.de/elv-highspeed-mini-usb-modul-um-ft2232h-komplettbausatz.html >> Also needs a Mini-B (not the popular Micro-B) USB cable in case you >> don't have a spare one. >> [2] https://www.reichelt.de/ >> Search for: steckboard lbb > > -- > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot