USB Booting from a neo in mass storage mode ?

Ian Stirling OpenMoko at mauve.plus.com
Sat Aug 25 02:32:01 CEST 2007


Florent THIERY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry to bring this up again (this subject was briefly discussed here
> some monts ago), but i finally decided to wait for the GTA02 device,
> which prevents me to test the effect of booting a regular computer
> from the neo's transflash in mass storage mode.
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:LiveUSB_distro
> 
> Could a happy neo owner confirm on infirm the (im)possibility of usb
> booting ? Any informations about USB mass storage mode (if
> implemented) would be greatly appreciated as well.
> 

In principle - trivial.
In practice - the kernel driver to switch from USB device to host mode 
isn't yet implemented - it's relatively trivial - but hasn't been done yet.




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