[OLPC-devel] I'm blocked from testing the SPI flashing tool

[Ronald G Minnich]

Richard Smith wrote:
> I'm current blocked from testing/help hack Ron's mods to flashrom for
> the SPI flash since I don't have any method of recovery other than
> "send me a new board".
> 
> To unblock I need one of the following:
> 
> Info on how to recover from a failed SPI flash and force the system to
> boot from the PLCC device.  I gather from Ron's post that if the EC
> code gets hosed you can't power up.  I don't need EC keyboard support
> since I'm 100% serial console.
> 
> or
> 
> Info on the pinout and voltage levels of CN20 so that I can build a
> recovery system to access the flash directly.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I'm thinking we should build linuxbios ALWAYS as a 1M-64K image and 
NEVER reflash the low 64k.

That way, you an always recover -- just plug in a PLCC. comments?

ron