<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Leo McManus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:LeoMcManus@3rdrootdsp.com">LeoMcManus@3rdrootdsp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Am looking at buying a Freerunner for use on a embedded course.<br>
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When I looked at buying last year the phone came with a developer<br>
board...and a pretty case!<br>
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If I buy a freerunner now it will not come with the interface board.<br>
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What restrictions will this put on my development. Will I be unable to<br>
modify the U-Boot code. Can I flash all the blocks within the flash?<br>
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TA<br>
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Leo<br>
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I meant Irish people."<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>You can update uboot and install new kernels and rootfs using openmoko's dlf-util program. But if you mess up programming uboot, your going to brick you phone. <br><br>They sell a JTAB / serial port board for the freerunner. This board
is nice because it can work on any arm system that has the 20 pin JTAG
connector. Openmoko still sells the "Dboard" on the US direct site
<a href="http://us.direct.openmoko.com/">http://us.direct.openmoko.com/</a>. Basicly its a FTDI high speed usb to
serial interface chip wired up to be a JTAG. Its nice because its a
simple open jtag system, that programs like xilinx and openOCD can operate.<br><br>-- <br>Peter Fetterer<br>KB3GTN<br><br>The force is like duct tape.<br>It has a light side and a darkside <br>and binds the universe together. <br>
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