Fast dfu-util for Mac?

Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson mokowatch at projektenterprises.com
Tue Sep 16 07:01:38 CEST 2008


Abdelrazak,
    I would love to know how to make it act in this manner, I'd love to 
not wait so long to finish flashing some days.

-Shawn

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson wrote:
>   
>> Linus,
>>      15 minutes is average for flashing my FR with anything I've tried so
>> far. From what I found on the wiki the device is only USB1.1 so it isn't
>> going to get any faster than that until a revision which moves to USB2.0.
>>     
>
> Well, 97MB is 776Mbit, USB1.1 is capable of either 1.5 Mbit/s 
> (Low-Speed) and 12 Mbit/s (Full-Speed). So flashing it should take less 
> than 9 minutes with low speed and a bit more than a minute with 
> full-speed. Maybe I am wrong but my conclusion is that the Freerunner 
> only use the low speed protocol of USB. If I am right, there is room to 
> get 8 times faster on Linux too.
>
> Abdel.
>
>   
>> -Shawn
>>
>> Linus Gasser wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> another question: if I boot the jffs from FDOM (97MB), it takes nearly
>>> 15 minutes on my Mac with the dfu-util from
>>>
>>> http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=Openmoko%20Flasher
>>>
>>> I heard somebody complain about the same issue on Windows. Is there
>>> another solution than to install Linux on my Mac? Anybody?
>>>
>>> Linus
>>>
>>>
>>>
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