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Ok, I will bite: Any recommendations for affordable SPI flashers that are capable of driving it's I/O with 1.8V *natively*?
Spent 2 hours yesterday debugging PiPico with 1.8V level shifter to no avail, either using picoprog, or libreboot's repo for serprog firmware (which didn't even build because someone fatfingered int baud, but that was an easy fix since it's C).
Finally got fed up with it, disconnected my Glasgow from DUT I was working on for the past few months, connected it to the MSI board and it just... worked first-try.
Problem is that I often need more than one flasher on hand, and Glasgow is pretty expensive (plus I prefer to have it with me while traveling, it's insanely useful). The only other flasher that I know of is a DediProg SF600, but that has an astronomical price so... yeah.
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