Quoting Emmanuel Fleury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > MAUGE Vincent wrote: >> Concerning aupd: >> >> I notice that when I updated the firmware with iTunes, the version of >> Diagnostic mode (see http://ipodlinux.org/Key_Combinations for >> information to access to this mode) changed. >> >> When I downdated (put an old firmware) the version didn't change. This >> happen after I put the id flag of aupd entries (see p 11 >> http://www.linux4nano.org/drupal/files/hardware_synth.pdf). >> >> So I think aupd allow to update some parts of the bootloader but not at all. > > I don't understant how you can come to this conclusion here. Could you > elaborate more ? >
The diagnostic mode is composed by low-level utilities. Even if you format the Flash memory (with dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda for example) , you can access to this mode. So the utilities are saved in an other memory and are part of the bootloader. > > We have no control on what is doing iTunes when performing an update, so > it might have performed some changes in some other places. No ? > To confirm, we can sniff the communication between iTunes and the iPod during an update. Heardy put links on the website (http://www.linux4nano.org/drupal/?q=node/84). I will test it when I will get the iPod. > > >> Does anybody have more information on the role of aupd on the previous >> version ? > > I also would be curious to know more about that. > Vincent ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Linux4nano-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/linux4nano-dev http://www.linux4nano.org
