Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Linus Gasser
Ian a écrit : > It has occurred to me that it would actually be faster to reflash the > neo over wireless - not that I would recommend that practice for > hopefully obvious reasons. > Well, one could transfer it over wireless, then once it's over there, md5 it and flash it, no? Linus ___

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson wrote: > Linus, > 15 minutes is average for flashing my FR with anything I've tried so > far. From what I found on the wiki the device is only USB1.1 so it isn't > going to get any faster than that until a revision which moves to USB2.0. Well, 97MB is 776Mbit, USB1.

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson
Abdelrazak, I would love to know how to make it act in this manner, I'd love to not wait so long to finish flashing some days. -Shawn Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson wrote: > >> Linus, >> 15 minutes is average for flashing my FR with anything I've tried so >> fa

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson wrote: > Abdelrazak, > I would love to know how to make it act in this manner, I'd love to > not wait so long to finish flashing some days. Note that my numbers are theoretical. The protocol overhead from usb and dfuutils might also explain the slowness if it is al

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Sarton O'Brien
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 11:51:10 nickd wrote: > Sarton look into running Linux inside VirtualBox. I believe it gives you > direct access to all USB devices. Will cut 1hr down to a few minutes. Thanks Nick, I'm a big fan of virtualbox. I actually run archlinux and my flash time is ~10mins. M

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson
Linus, 15 minutes is average for flashing my FR with anything I've tried so far. From what I found on the wiki the device is only USB1.1 so it isn't going to get any faster than that until a revision which moves to USB2.0. -Shawn Linus Gasser wrote: > Hello all, > > another question: if I b

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread nickd
Sarton look into running Linux inside VirtualBox. I believe it gives you direct access to all USB devices. Will cut 1hr down to a few minutes. -Nick Sarton O'Brien wrote: > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 06:27:59 Linus Gasser wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> another question: if I boot the jffs fro

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Sarton O'Brien
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 06:27:59 Linus Gasser wrote: > Hello all, > > another question: if I boot the jffs from FDOM (97MB), it takes nearly > 15 minutes on my Mac with the dfu-util from > > http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=Openmoko%20Flasher > > I heard somebody complain about the same issu

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Ian
Wow, that's /almost/ a whole megabit O_O No, seriously I've noticed that it takes forever to flash from Linux too... Seems that the freerunner only has USB1.1 instead of 2.0, but even taking the USB overhead into consideration it still seems awfully slow. I guess that N800 of mine spoilt me with i

Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Linus Gasser
Hello all, another question: if I boot the jffs from FDOM (97MB), it takes nearly 15 minutes on my Mac with the dfu-util from http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=Openmoko%20Flasher I heard somebody complain about the same issue on Windows. Is there another solution than to install Linux on my M