dfu-util

[Fredrik Wendt]

Hi.

When I push a new rootfs image onto my FreeRunner it takes aproximately
10 minutes. It's a PITA having to wait that long when I try to track
down where some functionality got lost or went broken.

I just wanted to know if this is "normal".

        root at t61-laptopt:/opt/openmoko/dfu-util/FSO# time dfu-rootfs openmoko-fso-image-glibc-ipk--20080729-om-gta02.rootfs.jffs2.summary 
        dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc.
        This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
        
        Opening USB Device 0x1d50:0x5119...
        Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=13, cfg=0, intf=0, alt=6, name="rootfs"
        Claiming USB DFU Interface...
        Setting Alternate Setting ...
        Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
        dfuIDLE, continuing
        Transfer Size = 0x1000
        bytes_per_hash=983040
        Starting download: [##################################################] finished!
        state(2) = dfuIDLE, status(0) = No error condition is present
        Done!
        
        real	8m59.738s
        user	0m0.076s
        sys	0m1.732s
        
What options are there? I guess it'd work to

1. turn the FR off
2. remove battery
3. lift the SIM card holder
4. get the SD card out
5. put it into a card reader/writer connected to my PC
6. empty the rootfs partition
7. unpack a tar.gz file 
8. remove card from reader/writer
9. fit SD card back into the slot in the FR
10. close SIM card
11. replace battery
12. boot (3-4 minutes)

That's a lot of fiddling with thin metal holders to gain 2-3 minutes?

Thanks for any pointers or hints (or just confirmations that this is
what everyone has to cope with right now).

/ Fredrik Wendt
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