On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 01:21:00AM -0400, Ken Young wrote: > I got my phone, and I'm a happy guy! > > I learned one thing that might save someone else some time. I > initially tried to do the dfu-util downloads of the kernel and > rootfs from linux running via VMWare on a Windoze host. Although > dfu-util definately could talk to the neo, it could not successfully > download the images. Once I switched to a native linux box (running > exactly the same OS version) I had no problems. > > Something that worries me is that at the end of the "Getting Started > with your Neo1973" page in the wiki, it suggests backing up the > original flash contents, because "... there are parts in the root > filesystem that can't be distributed over internet so they are only found > in the shipped ROM (see the GPS driver)." Now these first neos have been > shipped with no rootfs at all (see wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SH1). So > we *have* to overwrite the rootfs before the device will boot. What > does that mean vis a vis the parts of the filesystem which can't be > distributed over the internet? How do we get those parts?
the information about 'there are parts in the root filesystem...' were wrong. I didn't check the revision history who put them there, but those are not applicable to SH1. so since there is no rootfs, no need to backup the garbage (or rather: tons of zeroes) in there. -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
