Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-27 Thread Joseph Smith
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:01:39 +0100, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Smith wrote: >> I found that Texas Instruments makes a 10-Bit FET bus switch with >> level shifting. >> http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74cbtd3861.pdf > > Good one. > > >> I went with the SOIC 24 package

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-25 Thread Peter Stuge
Joseph Smith wrote: > I found that Texas Instruments makes a 10-Bit FET bus switch with > level shifting. > http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74cbtd3861.pdf Good one. > I went with the SOIC 24 package and got one of these SOIC to DIP > adapters real cheap ($1.60) on eBay. > http://cgi.ebay.

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-25 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:33:33 -0500, Joseph Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:46:32 -0500, Joseph Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:36:34 +0100, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Joseph Smith wrote: >> A series of

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-25 Thread Joseph Smith
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:46:32 -0500, Joseph Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:36:34 +0100, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Joseph Smith wrote: >>> >> A series of 1K ohms resistors 250mW (1/4W) on data lines D0 - D6 >>> >> convert the signals from 5V to 3

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-24 Thread Joseph Smith
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:36:34 +0100, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Smith wrote: >> >> A series of 1K ohms resistors 250mW (1/4W) on data lines D0 - D6 >> >> convert the signals from 5V to 3.3v needed by the flash chip. >> > >> > This sentence and design is not so good. >> >> Ok,

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-24 Thread Peter Stuge
Joseph Smith wrote: > >> A series of 1K ohms resistors 250mW (1/4W) on data lines D0 - D6 > >> convert the signals from 5V to 3.3v needed by the flash chip. > > > > This sentence and design is not so good. > > Ok, how about this: > A series of 1K ohms resistors 250mW (1/4W) on data lines D0 ??? D

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-24 Thread Joseph Smith
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:11:04 +0100, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Smith wrote: >> Ok, I have finished the "The Circuit Explained" section. I need >> some feedback, bueller? > >> A series of 1K ohms resistors 250mW (1/4W) on data lines D0 - D6 >> convert the signals from 5V to

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-24 Thread Peter Stuge
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > sources for lmilk On that note I found a newer tarball than the 0.12 I linked to before, now you can also get http://stuge.se/lmilk-0.20.tar.gz I didn't look at them so I don't know what changed, but I do know that I never really used anything but 0.12, and it work

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 24.11.2008 21:53, Joseph Smith wrote: > Ok, I have finished the "The Circuit Explained" section. I need some > feedback, bueller? > > http://www.coreboot.org/LPCflasher > Awesome, thanks! By the way, I have some sources for lmilk and some other stuff. Contact me off-list if you want them. R

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-24 Thread Peter Stuge
Joseph Smith wrote: > Ok, I have finished the "The Circuit Explained" section. I need > some feedback, bueller? > A series of 1K ohms resistors 250mW (1/4W) on data lines D0 - D6 > convert the signals from 5V to 3.3v needed by the flash chip. This sentence and design is not so good. A resistor ca

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-24 Thread Joseph Smith
Ok, I have finished the "The Circuit Explained" section. I need some feedback, bueller? http://www.coreboot.org/LPCflasher -- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-22 Thread Joseph Smith
Update: I finished my LPCflasher, and have uploaded images to the Wiki page if your interested in what it looks like. http://www.coreboot.org/LPCflasher -- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/li

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-21 Thread Joseph Smith
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:45:58 +0100, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Smith wrote: >> Sure, I'm interested in how the lmilk software works, but I can't >> seem to find it anywhere. Anyone got a link? > > Andy stopped distributing it, I dug up the tarball. So: > > http://stuge.se/

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Joseph Smith wrote: > Sure, I'm interested in how the lmilk software works, but I can't > seem to find it anywhere. Anyone got a link? Andy stopped distributing it, I dug up the tarball. So: http://stuge.se/lmilk-0.12.tar.gz and for more data points: http://cheaplpc.com/cheaplpc/software.asp

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Joseph Smith
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:20:11 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20.11.2008 23:07, Peter Stuge wrote: >> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> > You need to implement a LPC protocol layer inside flashrom to > do this. > >> >> Find an lmilk/wmilk tarball and trans

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > It would certainly help if flashrom became the default Linux tool > for homebrew flashers. Yes and no. flashrom doesn't have very much to offer besides some limited chip knowledge, but that may be good enough for homebrew purposes. The problem is that infrastructure

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 20.11.2008 23:07, Peter Stuge wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > You need to implement a LPC protocol layer inside flashrom to do this. > > Find an lmilk/wmilk tarball and translate the C++ code. Or maybe make > a plugin system for flashrom using some kind of IPC

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >>> You need to implement a LPC protocol layer inside flashrom to >>> do this. Find an lmilk/wmilk tarball and translate the C++ code. Or maybe make a plugin system for flashrom using some kind of IPC. Pipes, shared memory, etc. They drove the milksop and cheaplpc. T

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 20.11.2008 21:48, Joseph Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:04:18 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 20.11.2008 18:43, Joseph Smith wrote: >> >>> The windows software C source for the original program is >>> available for a reference point and it is v

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Joseph Smith
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:04:18 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20.11.2008 18:43, Joseph Smith wrote: >> >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:03 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks. I think flashrom support will be fairly easy to setup. W

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 20.11.2008 18:43, Joseph Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:03 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Thanks. I think flashrom support will be fairly easy to setup. We just >>> need to setup communications for a LPT port. >>> >> You need to implement a

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Joseph Smith
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:03 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks. I think flashrom support will be fairly easy to setup. We just > need >> to setup communications for a LPT port. >> > > You need to implement a LPC protocol layer inside flashrom to do this. > While

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 20.11.2008 16:25, Joseph Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:35:06 -0800, "David Hendricks" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So far so good. I'm looking forward to reading up more on flashrom >> support, but I suspect that it will come more >> or less automatically once all the >> hardwa

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Joseph Smith
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:26:17 +0800, "FENG Yu Ning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I particularly like "The Circuit Explained" section. There are many > open design electronic projects out there, but I cannot remember many > explain their circuits. People have discussed to make sure the design > is

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-20 Thread Joseph Smith
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:35:06 -0800, "David Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So far so good. I'm looking forward to reading up more on flashrom support, > but I suspect that it will come more or less automatically once all the > hardware is hooked up and the machine is booting linux. > Th

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-19 Thread David Hendricks
So far so good. I'm looking forward to reading up more on flashrom support, but I suspect that it will come more or less automatically once all the hardware is hooked up and the machine is booting linux. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Joseph Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I almost ha

Re: [coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-19 Thread FENG Yu Ning
On 11/20/08, Joseph Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I almost have my LPCflasher built I'm just waiting on one more part to > come. So I went ahead and started the wiki page. It's just a start, so keep > an eye on it over the next few weeks the page is going to fill right up > (and then so

[coreboot] LPCflasher Wiki Page

2008-11-19 Thread Joseph Smith
Well I almost have my LPCflasher built I'm just waiting on one more part to come. So I went ahead and started the wiki page. It's just a start, so keep an eye on it over the next few weeks the page is going to fill right up (and then some). So are there any suggestions on stuff I should add? http