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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Rombox on 2.5?Re: Rombox on 2.5?
From: [IDC]Dragon <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:53:54 +0200 (MEST) > >> Does bootbox work yet? > > > Yes, it works, but I'd like to gain a bit more confidence with > > it. Only a few people participated in the beta test, iirc not > > all all models were covered (Studio and Ondio SP untested). > > Pls remember that I tested on all my devices, among which are > both an Ondio SP and a Studio 10... Another case of bad iirc, please forgive me old senile. > We could round up here. Afair, the bootloader determines the > start of the second image from the start & length of the first > one. Simply padding the first image a little with zero bytes to > leave a bit more room should be enough. This would also have the > advantage that we could use the same start address for the > second image on all models. The padding will have to be hand-adjusted for each model, to reach the same destination. Plus bootbox is compressed, so we need a non-trivial padding. > I'd say releasing it in parallel would be a good idea. The > feature freeze phase should help weeding out bugs. > > Of course rockbox_flash should get the start address check > added we already talked about. It will work fine as long as we > don't change the linking convention, i.e. the startup code is > located directly behind the vector table. Adding this check can > happen before the freeze. This will prevent flashing a rombox > image with the wrong start address. I'll add the check, if I find a free minute. > Release 2.5 rombox should then be built with the new rom_start > address. Bootbox for the flash packages would be built from the > same code base. Immediately after that the flash packages could > be put together, tested & released. Yes. Greetings Jörg -- 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockboxReceived on 2005-08-11 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |