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Subject: Re: Rockbox in Flash doesn't work for FM :-)

Re: Rockbox in Flash doesn't work for FM :-)

From: Nix <nix_at_esperi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:49:34 +0100

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, idc-dragon_at_gmx.de uttered the following:
> I wrote everywhere it's not done for the FM yet, had good reason to do so,
> but you use brute force (it must have involved a good deal of renaming things)
> to drive it against the wall.
>
> This is really giving me second thoughts about releasing this. I didn't take
> into account that people may be so reckless. Looks like I never can
> fool-proof this enough, especially when I release the source code. What monster have
> I unleashed here...

Hey, if he wants to shoot himself in the foot, even though you tell him
that it hurts, he can go ahead.

`Don't do that then' is quite sufficient; anyone who doesn't approach
bootloader replacement with trepidation is, well, a fool. :)

> please be patient and don't hack my toolchain!

(unless you too have the mods to be able to recover even given a blank
flash ;) )

-- 
`We cannot get a new line down the pipe due to a blockage and we cannot
 dig up the road to clear the blockage because it is covered with the
 wrong type of tarmac.' --- British Telecom, via Mark Lowes
Received on 2003-07-12

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