Getting Neo1973 running again.

Paul Fertser fercerpav at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 21:17:20 CEST 2009


Svetoslav Trochev <sal_electronics at hotmail.com> writes:
> 1. The FSO distribution will be discontinued in order to allow
> developers to concentrate on working on the framework.
> 2. The SHR will become the facto official distribution to use and
> showcase the FSO framework.

Right.

> 3. From reading mailing list [1] I should use the u-boot on Neo1973.

Well, i can say for sure that Qi also works on gta01 and moreover it
supports booting from SDHC.

> 5. I am having trouble locating recommended versions for:
>     5.1 U-boot loader for Neo1973
>     5.2 dfu-util (version that will work with Neo1973)
>     5.3 NeoTool ( if it works with Neo 1973)

NeoTool is some tool which i consider to be useless tbh.
 
> 6. My current understanding is that each distribution uses own kernel.
> Is this correct?

I think both OM2009 and SHR unstable use andy-tracking HEAD.

> 7. Currently SHR is too big to fit on the internal flash memory and
> should be installed on uSD card. Instructions can be found here: [2]

No, lite unstable image should fit in NAND too.

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