Fast dfu-util for Mac?

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson wrote:
> 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.

Note that my numbers are theoretical. The protocol overhead from usb and 
dfuutils might also explain the slowness if it is already running at 
full speed. The usb driver experts should speak up in order to clarify 
that issue IMHO.

Abdel.

PS: Please don't top post

>
> -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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