[PATCH] dfu-util: Don't sleep unnecessarily

[Stefan Schmidt]

Hello.

On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 09:37, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:27:20PM +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> > > This is on a Beagleboard-xM, with a custom patch to u-boot for DFU
> > > support:
> > > 
> > > http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/d837e52e29a583d4/
> > 
> > Great. Are you going to work on getting this into upstream u-boot?
> 
> I would love to, but don't have the time at the moment to clean up
> the patch.  It's very hacky in places, and I can see why it's not
> upstream already! I'll probably consider it though next time I have
> to merge the patch into future u-boots!

Same problem for me. Never come around to work on it.

> > Getting the correct timeout from u-boot would indeed be great. :)
> 
> For the archives, the current latest version that fixes this is
>     http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/msg/a565ebfac4c5a43f
> (google's search functionality doesn't make it easy to find!)

Great. Is there any repo you are working against? Something I could use to track
your progress?

> > If you are loking for more bugs there is also a problem with DFU
> > upload in the u-boot patches. :)
> 
> So that latest patch above also fixed uploads for me (at least into
> RAM - haven't tested flash).  The problem that I had was that the
> pointer to read from (ds->ptr) for uploads was never initialised.
> 
> Were there any other bugs with upload?

It could be that the pointer init fixed that. I had this in mind:
http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/676

> There's also modifications in my beagle u-boot patch that makes
> DFU's RAM partition obey ${loadaddr} for download/upload, and
> ${filesize} for upload (no more hard-coded 0x200000).  I'll try to
> get some time to push those patches into the openmoko tree (though I
> don't have any devices to test on, so I may call for a patch test
> monkey :)

I don't have an env set up for testing u-boot patches for the GTA02. Given some
time in advance I should be able to prepare something. I'm busy until mid of
april I fear. Afterwards I can give you an hand on testing.

regards
Stefan Schmidt