Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Andrew Chu wrote: Hi Abdel, Actually, the patch is what is compiled into the 0.1+svn beta version of dfu-util for Win32 on projects.openmoko.org. I'm assuming that that is the version that everyone here is using? Yes for me at least. I also am using WinXP SP2 as Benedikt Schindler on

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Andrew Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the feedback that the dfu-util for Win32 is that much slower on Vista. I wasn't aware of that. The changes I made to the dfu-util source code were minimal but they could use a code review (I've posted the diff

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nishit Dave wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Andrew Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the feedback that the dfu-util for Win32 is that much slower on Vista. I wasn't aware of that. The changes I made to the dfu-util source code were minimal

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread yves mahe
Nishit Dave wrote: I'm using Windows XP with 512 MB RAM on my laptop. rootfs flashing takes between 1-2 hours IIRC. I'm using Windows XP with 1280 MB RAM on my laptop (Centrino 1.7 GHz). rootfs flashing takes 1h15 . ___ Openmoko community

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread Benedikt Schindler
Laptop / winXP SP2 i just need 10 minutes and i think this is normal for 60MB via usb 1.0 yves mahe schrieb: Nishit Dave wrote: I'm using Windows XP with 512 MB RAM on my laptop. rootfs flashing takes between 1-2 hours IIRC. I'm using Windows XP with 1280 MB RAM on my

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Benedikt Schindler wrote: Laptop / winXP SP2 i just need 10 minutes and i think this is normal for 60MB via usb 1.0 Usb 1.1 can offer up to 1.5 MB/s so ideally 60MB should be transferred in 40 seconds. This is of course not counting the memory writing on the flash memory which could be

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread Andrew Chu
Hi Abdel, Actually, the patch is what is compiled into the 0.1+svn beta version of dfu-util for Win32 on projects.openmoko.org. I'm assuming that that is the version that everyone here is using? I also am using WinXP SP2 as Benedikt Schindler on these replies is using as well. For the

RE: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread Crane, Matthew
, 2008 12:53 PM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG* Hi Abdel, Actually, the patch is what is compiled into the 0.1+svn beta version of dfu-util for Win32 on projects.openmoko.org. I'm assuming that that is the version that everyone

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread Nishit Dave
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wanted to share my experience with FR and Windows Vista. Well, that was just a first time user experience :-) Abdel. You haven't even tried backing it up. Try and see how long *that* takes. They say it

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nishit Dave wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wanted to share my experience with FR and Windows Vista. Well, that was just a first time user experience :-) Abdel. You haven't even tried

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread Vinc Duran
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You haven't even tried backing it up. Try and see how long *that* takes. They say it is much, much better with the Linux port of DFU-util (or rather, something is very very wrong with the Windows port). snip

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread Andrew Chu
Thanks for the feedback that the dfu-util for Win32 is that much slower on Vista. I wasn't aware of that. The changes I made to the dfu-util source code were minimal but they could use a code review (I've posted the diff below). On Windows XP, I've never had to wait more than 20 minutes to

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread nickd
Try virtualbox. I don't think VMware server has native usb support. VirtualBox however supports any USB device AFAIK -Nick Vinc Duran wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You haven't even tried backing it up.

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread Denis Johnson
FWIW, I have a laptop with 2gig ram and the host if Windows XP. I know I know, but for work that's what I need. So I use the free http://virtualbox.org and run a virtualized Ubuntu on my Windows XP SP3 box, but I'm sure it is fine in Vista also. That way one does not have to shutdown one or the