Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

Abdelrazak Younes younes at lyx.org
Wed Sep 3 10:07:17 CEST 2008


Andrew Chu wrote:
> Hi Abdel,
>
> Actually, the patch is what is compiled into the 0.1+svn beta version of
>    dfu-util for Win32 on projects.openmoko.org.  I'm assuming that that
> is the version that everyone here is using?

Yes for me at least.

>
> I also am using WinXP SP2 as Benedikt Schindler on these replies is
> using as well.  For the others who experience long flash times on
> Windows XP, are you also using SP2?
>
> I am using Intel Core2 6420 @ 2.13GHz with 3GB of RAM, and USB 2.0
> controller.

Here: Intel Core2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz with 2GB of RAM, and USB 2.0 
controller. My system was Vista but I just upgraded to Vista SP1 and the 
duration is about the same.

> I guess the other question is, who else can flash rootfs in under 20
> minutes using dfu-util for Win32?  What are your configurations (version
> of Windows (including Service Pack), type of processor, amount of RAM,
> USB controller version)?
>
> Hopefully we can find a commonality among those that experience the long
> flash times and among those that do not.

I suspect a problem with libusb on Vista.

Abdel.





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