<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Robert Selby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Robert.Selby@snellgroup.com" target="_blank">Robert.Selby@snellgroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Hi, just</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"> found FlashRom and looks to be a good base to start from for my needs.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">I have a USB->SPI bridge device (MCP2210)</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Calibri">and on it</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">’</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">s SPI bus is a</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Calibri">“</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">S25FL128S</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">”</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"> device.</font></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">It looks as though there is no direct support for accessing via the MCP2210.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">I assume that I would need to write a</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Calibri">“</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">programmer</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">”</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"> to get this to work ???</font></span></p></div></blockquote><div>Yes, you will need to make flashrom speak to the MCP2210.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">I have a MCP2210 access library that seems to work well via</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Calibri">“</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">/dev/hidra</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">w</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">”</font></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">.</font></span></p></div></blockquote><div>That should work so long as you can wrap generic data into a protocol that MCP2210 will understand.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure about the existing library using /dev/hidraw... If you want to use libusb then you might want to check out ft2232_spi.c as an example.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">Any advice/recommendations very welcome.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri">It may be that someone has already done this</font></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Calibri">…</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial">Regards,<br>
Bob<br>
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