Freerunner on a Mac ...

[Rod Whitby]

Christ van Willegen wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rod Whitby <rod at whitby.id.au> wrote:
>> Christ van Willegen wrote:
>>
>>> What I am wondering about (and maybe you as wel...) is if it will be
>>> possible to re-flash the Freerunner using a Mac. Since I also own a
>>> Mac, that would be nice to know...
>>>
>>  I have reflashed GTA01 and GTA02 with a Linksys NSLU2 NAS device, and a
>> Freecom FSG-3 wireless router (using dfu-util cross-compiled for armeb and
>> ipkg installed on SlugOS).
> 
> Like Dirk, my Mac runs OS-X... and I don't feel comfortable hacking
> into my router to do this!

My point was that the dfu-util program used to flash the Openmoko device 
is a very portable utility, and can be compiled on just about any 
reasonable OS, including OS-X.

In fact, it's already been done:

   http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:SNMoore

-- Rod