Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-10 Thread Matthias Mohr
For me the most important one is the possibility to handle the startup with my non-LCD remote... That works fine with the bootloader I'm using, (r14938M). That's another reason to release an updated bootloader version ;) regards, Matthias (aka Massa)

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-09 Thread Matthias Mohr
Hi Daniel, it would still be nice to have solved some of the problems in the released bootloader. What issues are there currently? Look at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverBoot#H320_H340 There is a table with known issues and other TODOs and which already have been fixed

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-09 Thread pondlife
For me the most important one is the possibility to handle the startup with my non-LCD remote... That works fine with the bootloader I'm using, (r14938M). pondlife

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Matthias Mohr wrote: Hi Daniel, it would still be nice to have solved some of the problems in the released bootloader. What issues are there currently? Look at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverBoot#H320_H340 There is a table with known issues and

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Dominik Riebeling wrote: What equipment is needed? And what is the process of unbricking a h300? Is it a long and complicated process...? You need to access the debug module of the CPU from outside, i.e. via hardware. Freescale calls this part of the hardware BDM

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Nils wrote: Is there a way to extract a usable copy of the existing bootloader first? Having changed PCs I've misplaced both the h300.hex file and the list of which modifications I included. pondlife Dump ROM contents creates a 4MiB bin file in the root, just scramble it

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: pondlife wrote: But not for my H300... I have the same 80GB drive as petur (I think, mine's a Toshiba MK8007GAH), and am happily using r14938M (modified, but I can't recall how - probably just the RTC alarm now you mention it). Hmmm, so it

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Nils wrote: though, that said I don't know why you would want to do this (I might have misunderstood). It would be much easier/safer to get a fresh .hex file and Because I lost my .hex file for the alarm... (alarm support in the bootloader...) so it can wakeup the player.

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-08 Thread XavierGr
Because I lost my .hex file for the alarm... (alarm support in the bootloader...) so it can wakeup the player. If you want I can send you my known-working bootloader.

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, XavierGr wrote: Because I lost my .hex file for the alarm... (alarm support in the bootloader...) so it can wakeup the player. If you want I can send you my known-working bootloader. Yes please. Could you also send along a sha1 check sum? And will this be a hex file

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-07 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
pondlife wrote: But not for my H300... I have the same 80GB drive as petur (I think, mine's a Toshiba MK8007GAH), and am happily using r14938M (modified, but I can't recall how - probably just the RTC alarm now you mention it). Hmmm, so it *might* be an issue with petur's device rather than a

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Peter D'Hoye wrote: Maybe I can abuse Linus to test changes on his BDM equipped player ;) Hey, that's not abuse, that's our regular use! ;-) -- Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-07 Thread Nils
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:45 AM, pondlife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you'd have to try current svn to be really sure though... the svn version at the time of devcon07 booted 50% of the time, the newer ones less, so the behaviour changes with revisions Sure, I'll give it a go tonight,

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-07 Thread Dominik Riebeling
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Daniel Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the problem. You can't reanimate a bricked h300 without special equipment. What equipment is needed? And what is the process of unbricking a h300? Is it a long and complicated process...? You need to access

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Matthias Mohr
Hi Daniel, Also, if the svn has a bug in the bootloader, it can make your target unbootable even if it's not your fault. That's why Rockbox releases bootloader. The last released H300 bootloader is from july, 2006! Regarding the TODO list at the above page, a lot of things have been fixed

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Matthias Mohr wrote: Unfortunately it seems that only Linus is able to do this - and it seems he doesn't have enough time or isn't in the mood to do it... The thing is that the current SVN bootloader still has issues with some hard drives, and I don't want to release a bootloader that doesn't

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Peter D'Hoye
Unfortunately it seems that only Linus is able to do this - and it seems he doesn't have enough time or isn't in the mood to do it... The thing is that the current SVN bootloader still has issues with some hard drives, and I don't want to release a bootloader that doesn't work.

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Matthias Mohr
Hi Linus, The thing is that the current SVN bootloader still has issues with some hard drives, and I don't want to release a bootloader that doesn't work. And the released bootloader don't have this issues? - If they also have the issues, the SVN bootloader should still be better than the

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Matthias Mohr wrote: If the risk of bricking my device isn't big (or if it's possible for me to reanimate a bricked H300) I would try to put a current SVN version of the bootloader on my device... That is the problem. You can't reanimate a bricked h300 without special equipment. Linus

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread XavierGr
If the risk of bricking my device isn't big (or if it's possible for me to reanimate a bricked H300) I would try to put a current SVN version of the bootloader on my device... I wouldn't say that the risk is very high, but it is there. In the past I tried to enable H110 flashing so I had to

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, XavierGr wrote: On a side note: Last working svn bootloader I built for me and about 7 (IIRC) people, was r14945 (with added alarm support). Does that revission contain any bugs what so ever in the bootloader code? Like does it work with all the different hard drives or

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Matthias Mohr wrote: Hi Linus, The thing is that the current SVN bootloader still has issues with some hard drives, and I don't want to release a bootloader that doesn't work. And the released bootloader don't have this issues? - If they also have the issues, the SVN

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread XavierGr
On 07/04/2008, Daniel Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, XavierGr wrote: Does that revission contain any bugs what so ever in the bootloader code? Like does it work with all the different hard drives or whatever? Or has this bug been introduced? If it worked fine for

building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
I have an iriver h320, do I build the bootloader from source like this? ../tools/configure 11 b make Or does make want a special argument? Then what is the output file called? And then do I just need to patch this file into an iriver firmware? Is it safe currently to build the bootloader from