As an alternative or maybe in conjunction you could have the 4 LED's blink together in the following order: 0000000111010100011101110111000111010001 (DONE) with a bit duration somewhere between 250 & 62.5 milliseconds, 1 representing on, and 0 representing off and the string repeating a number of times prior to off or infinitely. come to think of this, have the script as it's final task compute an MD5 or similar checksum on what was just written to verify a proper write and on success start flashing the above sequence. if somewhere along the process something went wrong causing it to exit, halt, or otherwise not obtain success it could blink 000000010101110100010111000101000101110101 (FAIL) using the same timing as above. Just a thought
Eric On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On May 16, 2014 5:49 PM, "Eric Fort" <eric.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So has this change been incorporated in the latest downloadable flasher > images? If so it might be a good thing to note both here and on any > official wiki instructions (possibly linked to *FROM* the Download page) > that images *AFTER* said date have this change. Though many do not, we > ought hold people responsible for reading the directions and documentation > and link them to appropriate authoritative sources whenever possible. > > Pretty much everything with a date stamp from within the last two days. > I've updated the docs which mention 2 of the image links. > > Otherwise it'll be anything new from me. > > > > > Eric > > > > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> So while debugging an issue with the "flasher" script when flashing a > large number of boards. We are yanking power when all 4 led's are on. It > seems to reason, eventually the "flashing" microSD might just get corrupt. > >> > >> So in the interest of making the "flashing" microSD more reliable and > of course to mess up every single new user, as every existing > blogs/wiki/etc everywhere will now be wrong. > >> > >> The "flashing" is now done when all 4 led's are off. (As the board has > physically been shutdown by the script.) > >> > >> * Of course, some os's like ubuntu 14.04 like to just randomly crash > when shutting down with our v3.8.x kernel, so while it "halted*" all 4 > led's are sometimes still on. > >> > >> ubuntu 14.04: (it shut down, but randomly the 4 led's are still on) > >> [ 100.173493] (NULL device *): gadget not registered. > >> [ 100.187875] System halted > >> > >> * Whereas Debian Wheezy it works just fine.. ;) > >> > >> So back to your regularly scheduled hacking time! > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> -- > >> Robert Nelson > >> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > >> > >> -- > >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
