Hi:

An example:

    extract /dev/i2c-1 firmware.txt 4

This will try to dump the firmware to a file called firmware.txt,
reading 4 bytes each time, and searching for the GSL chip in the first
i2c bus.

On 25/05/15 16:10, David Bentley wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 7:43:33 AM UTC-4, Sergio Costas wrote:
>
>     Hi all:
>
>     I created a firmware extractor for these chips. Hope it is useful.
>
>     Some notes:
>
>       * Sometimes it fails in the first launch, but launching again with
>     exactly the same parameters works fine.
>       * Try to unload the touch module before running it, to avoid
>     interferences between both codes.
>       * Try first with a chunk size of 4 bytes, and change only to 2
>     or 1 if
>     it fails.
>
>     -- 
>     Nos leemos
>                              RASTER    (Linux user #228804)
>     [email protected] <javascript:>            
>      http://www.rastersoft.com
>
>
> It is great to see someone is still working on the gslx680 I had
> thought the driver porting efforts had died out.
>
> I have compiled and tried the tool but am having a bit of difficulty
> getting any output. I am not sure I am entering the
> parameter for the Device correctly... exactly what is it looking for
> here ? the i2c device name ?  I get "Cant open device error"
> on all that I have attempted thus far.
>
> I am attempting to make an android driver for my Touchscreen on an
> A31s Q711C_2M_PG iNet board. This seems to be a bit of
> an out of the ordinary driver and I have been completely unable to
> obtain any source code for it, although I have a Large number
> of sources that I have downloaded from many places. In any case I
> would like to make something similar to the sunxi-gslx680 and
> Rastersoft drivers for Android ie ability to load firmwares from a
> file. I have not yet tried to compile the Rastersoft version and my
> attempts
> to alter the driver included with the A31SDK's have been unfruitful
> for this Tablet so far. I used the firmware extractor from sunxi-gslx680
> however i have not been able to do much of anything with the resulting
> file due mainly to my Lack of any recent experience in C
> programming and the differences in sunxi and sdk kernel code.
>
> Thanks I hope you can help :-)
>  


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