From: Rune Wiinberg <colourless_at_stud.ku.dk>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:41 +0100

Hi Jörg.

Would it be possible to use the remote pin for minimon?
Ie. have minimon use the halfduplex bidirectional functionality you wrote
about in a earlier post.
This way no hardware mod would be needed to rescue a box.

Best Regards (and thanks for your hard work)
/ Rune

----- Original Message -----
From: "[IDC]Dragon" <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: all flashed recorders, please reflash with my latest


> > what's the point in the on+F3 unit-freeze function?
> >
> > It all seems rather pointless to me. Did I miss a meeting?
>
> The freeze is the symptom, because actually my "minimon" monitor program
is
> started. It sits there and waits for commands from the serial interface.
You
> need the serial mod to use it. Minimon can be used to reflash the box,
even
> if all but the first couple of hundred bytes went wrong. It is the same
> monitor which I download with the UART boot mod feature, for the common
boxes with
> boot ROM it "only" saves that mod. For the rare ROMless boxes, it is the
only
> chance of recovery if flashing goes wrong, because there's no UART boot
> possibility for them. I introduced minimon into the bootloader for those.
>
> Jörg
>
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Received on 2003-12-01