On 9/22/07, Tapio Kelloniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I've understood correctly, bootloaders are built together with rockbox > current builds, but current bootloaders cannot be downloaded from anywhere. Is > there some reason for this? I'm using H300 and the bootloader is quite old, so > I'm curious to know if a new version will be released in the near future.
Bootloaders are much more critical than usual builds -- a broken bootloader can brick your player (this is not true for all players; for example, the Ipods have a build-in recovery mode which works even with a broken bootloader -- the H100 and H300 series in contrast can get bricked quite easily with a broken bootloader and the only way of recovering is using external hardware). Thus using an svn bootloader is not recommended. Instead, bootloaders are released to ensure they are working properly. The bootloaders are build regularly from svn to ensure they build at all. This does not guarantee that they function as expected. - Dominik
