after Qi no USB in Nor questions

[Paul Fertser]

Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no> writes:
> Did you flash Qi to both NAND flash and NOR flash?

Flashing NOR is impossible without debug board or messing with hardware.

> But you have a working image, and linux has device drivers
> for flash devices. ( /dev/mtd* ) Reading them is no problem.
>
> So I believe it is possible to overwrite a flash device while linux is 
> running. It had better not be the rootfs, but boot flash is a different 
> device.
>
> Maybe it is as simple as "cat imagefile > /dev/mtdsomething"
> Get some detailed advice about this though - don't experiment.

Don't dare to try that!

There're working instructions on the wiki how to flash NAND from a
running system:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_the_Neo_Freerunner#Alternative:_using_nandwrite .

HTH
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