#185: Need better SPI FLASH recovery procedure
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: BTest-1
Component: linuxbios | Resolution:
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The serial SPI flash updater program is working. It needs some packaging
before it will be ready for general release. The results so far are
encouraging:
Reprogramming the entire 1MiB FLASH takes 3.5 minutes. That is a Spansion
part; the SST part is expected to take about 5 minutes because the
protocol is different. I don't have a board with an SST FLASH so someone
else will have to test it for me.
One recovery mode that I'm supporting is "cloning", where you hook one
OLPC board to another and copy the FLASH from the working board to the
bricked one. Or you can get the new bits from a file.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/185#comment:1>
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