-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Marcelo wrote: |> You'll see some messages flash on the screen and you'll see a |> line that reads "Installed Qi". The device will reboot, some |> more messages will flash by and you'll see a message that reads |> "Installed everything". | | How exactly does this kernel/rootfs mechanism do the flashing of the | image? Specifically, there has been some discussion on IRC and the | kernel list regarding the bad-block-table and other aspects of non-DFU | flashing, and I'm wondering if those discussions have been taken into | consideration.
I would assume flash_erase and nandwrite, it should be fine. Currently there's a weakness if a block that was good at factory goes bad when written, nandwrite and Qi will differ on what to do about that right now. Qi isn't doing ECC yet either. But in my experience blocks going bad that were not already bad from factory, with even my high update rate of bootloader and kernel, has not happened to me yet on several devices in over a year. But should it happen, it's always possible to recover by SD Card and / or NOR, to update Qi for example, and we'll add stuff to Qi to deal with these lower probability issues later. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmyHs0ACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqiVwCfXG+FanJNXTbOLIKEJZH0JPcu 3cAAnA14ygiOlbPD8NJAsRHZCjhyQ4ZO =R7LY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ android-freerunner mailing list [email protected] http://android.koolu.org/listinfo.cgi/android-freerunner-koolu.org
