VIA Announces SPI Support Across All Processor Platforms

[PV5150]

VIA Technologies has announced support for the advanced SPI bus in all new VIA South Bridge chipsets. The implementation of SPI on VIA-based boards will enable even easier updating, debugging and reprogramming of BIOS, and at even lower cost, by attaching a flash programming module to the easy-to-use onboard connector, even when the computing device is powered down. Care to comment? Certainly an innovative move by VIA, care to comment? Feel free to do so below...

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[nathan]

i love VIA....

 

[Rastalovich]

It`s definately kinky.

Is this, I wonder, going to completely do away with the methods some users use to make custom bios` ?

Monitor editing the bios file, changing the checksums, then flashing to test. - cos that seems a real pita to me.

Sounds very good for the system-back-breakers and oc`ers alike. lmao there will be some tears down the road! Depends if compatible eprom burners are made cheap and easily available I guess.

 

[FragTek]

VIA has just been banging a crapload of awesome new stuff out recently. Kinda refreshing to see VIA taking charge and being innovative again.