User:GNUtoo

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I've no code in flashrom yet, but I made a flashrom compatible arduino programmer and participated in testing and documentation.

Wiki contributions

My contributions to this wiki are available under the following licenses:

My interests

  • Easily available external flashers.
  • BIOS->Coreboot flashing on the Libreboot compatible laptops.
  • NIC flashing (to flash ipxe)
  • GPU flashing (to flash sgabios)


My hardware

Mainboard based programmers

Device or programmer Flash chip Test result
Asrock E350M1
  • A25L032
  • Works from coreboot
  • Untested from the BIOS
Asus F2A85M-PRO
Asus M4A785T-M
  • W25x80 (DIP8)
  • Works with the BIOS
  • Works with coreboot
Lenovo Thinkpad T400
Lenovo Thinkpad T60
  • MX25L1605D/MX25L1608D
  • Works with coreboot
Lenovo Thinkpad X200
Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Tablet
Lenovo Thinkpad X60
  • SST25VF016B
  • Works with coreboot.
Lenovo Thinkpad X60T
  • MX25L1605D/MX25L1608D
  • Works with coreboot
PC Engines Alix.1c
  • Works with coreboot
  • Works with the recovery LPC dongle
PC Engines APU1D4

External programmers

Device or programmer Flashrom driver Status
Arduino uno serprog
  • Works fine
Arduino duemillanove serprog
  • Works fine
Arduino Due serprog
  • Works fine
openmoko debug board ft2232_spi:type=openmoko
  • Works fine
3com PCI NIC (10b7:9200) nic3com
  • Works fine
Sata SII PCI card
  • writing and erasing worked fine.
Really old PCI realtek cards
  • No parallel chip to test
Bug 1.x and 2.x from buglabs linux_spi
  • Backporting some mainline kernel patches is required on some very old (2.6.35) kernel for omap3.
  • Works fine otherwise
An atahpt PCI card
  • Didn't work when adding the PCI IDS, but the atahpt is known not to work according to the mailing list.
old AGP Nvidia card
  • Worked with a patch (documented below)
Nvidia geforce 210 PCIe 16x card
  • didn't work when adding the PIC IDs

I've also the following hardware:

  • SOIC-8 and SOIC-16 clips (like the pomona 5250)
  • some chips(2MB SO8(currently soldered), 16MB SO8)

Work in progress for the wiki

Don't try that, it's dangerous!!!!

Howto(Dangerous, not ready for the wiki)