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Merging Minipro code for TL866xx programmers

Added by Eloy Degen over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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New
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
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Target version:
Start date:
05/11/2022
Due date:
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0%

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Description

David Hendricks (@David Hendricks) expressed interest in adding support in that particular issue.

I think that the programmer is quite somewhat different than most programmers supported in flashrom, since the programmer itself has a database of supported flash chips and abstracts more behind hardware. Which would mean that /include/flashchips.h isn't usable in this programmer.

There is a working open source implementation of flashing software named minipro[1], but sparsely packaged (Fedora and CentOS, only proposed in Debian) and only supports a single programmer, instead of flashrom which is more versatile. The code of minipro is GPLv3 and flashrom is GPLv2, which are incompatible licenses. Re-implementing the entire code would make implementing a lot more work. Any suggestions how to proceed here?

[1] https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/minipro

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