io andrew > Agreed, and with the start of 0xFFFF (how many Fs? ;-)) it's less
Heheh, 4, the required ones to fill a short variable :P > important to get FIASCO images out: it certainly would give a > community-driven OS2007on770 project flexibility. > > However, I'd still advocate in the short term that an ability to > generate FIASCO images is important: > > 1) there's a pretty Windows GUI for it already What is windows? I'm writing a GTK+ (glade) frontend in C for 0xFFFF and other flashers for embedded devices like the one for the HTC phones. I have lot of wishes for it and very little time for coding :( But i'll happily receive your ideas and tips for it (here or in the 0xFFFF mailing list). > 2) 0xFFFF isn't necessarily mature enough yet. Well I don't use the nokia one anymore, and works pretty fine, but I agree that it needs more work and a better code reorganization, but it's in a early stage (0.1). > However, I'd imagine in time the OS2007on770 project would start > shipping tarballs containing bzImage, initfs.img, rootfs.img (say) and > use 0xFFFF - with knowledge of these tarballs - to upgrade all the > components (or just the changed components) in one go. A tarball would be ok, but I would prefer to design a standard format for firmwares for embedded devices as I said in: http://nopcode.org/0xFFFF/?p=docu&q=nokia-tips """ The (new and old) FIASCO firmware format is not a very clean format, it doesn't provide any checksumming facility to ensure that the contents of the firmware have been modified or incorrect, so i'll rather encourage to design and create a standard firmware format for embedded devices with checksumming, signatures, handling libraries, documentation and so. I'll happilly collaborate on the design of this open firmware format, and it would be used on all the open source-based devices to aim interoperability between devices and flashers, providing a more standard and reliable way of flashing devices. This will ease the development on new devices, so the information and the code could be revised and enhaced by zillions of eyes. """" 0xFFFF actually autodetects the piece type automatically, so no need for specifying what is what, the 'tarball' support can be done with a wrapper shellscript. > A more laudable aim if OS2007on770 starts forking off from Nokia's IT > releases would be apt-gettable upgrades (but let's file that under > "Long Term Goals" ;-)). hehehe an apt-like upgrades would be really nice! Another thing that I really miss from each nokia firmware release is the lack of commandline tools like ping, telnet(or nc), gunzip... I was thinking on the possibility of writing a simple program packaged into a maemo-deb to allow backups from/to the device using the 0xFFFF graphical frontend, rsync and ssh can be used. --pancake _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
