[Arm-netbook] microSD breakout board, suitable for debugging using tablets.

[Tom Cubie]

On 02/14/2012 04:58 PM, "Sztupák Sz. Zsolt" wrote:
> The Teclast P76Ti and L7-F1 also have upgrade pins. According to the
> google translated A10 docs if you don't have an upgrade pin you can use
> any other non-power button too (press any button, insert usb, press
> power button a few times). I don't know whether this latter
> functionality is based on a bootloader on the NAND or not, but I think
> it's always avialable.

The FEL code is in brom inside A10. The upgrade pin check is in brom, too.
The non-power button check is in bootloader(boot1) in NAND. You can take
a look the A10 boot process page on wiki.

>    SztupY
>> My Novo7 Advanced has a RECV pinhole button (Recovery) on the side.
>> You can press it for 10 seconds while pressing the Power button, and
>> it goes directly into FEL.
>>
>> I used it a few times when I screwed up something on the NAND boot
>> partition (well, I completely wiped it by accident *sigh*), so I
>> believe it skips NAND entirely. Unfortunately there's not much docs or
>> tools about FEL and the only thing to be done is to reflash the whole
>> firmware with Livesuit.
>>
>> Try to see if the Elf has a RECV button on the pictures, I guess it should.
>>
>>
>> Also, I found some dual-boot references on the .ini files on the
>> bootloader, including a (disabled) menu and... WinCE, lol. But I
>> couldn't get it to work.
>>
>>
>> Alejandro
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Henrik Nordström
>> <henrik at henriknordstrom.net>   wrote:
>>> Still looing for a suitable tablet for hacking on. As I am not planning
>>> to using it as a development platform more RAM is premium and of the A10
>>> tables I have found only Novo 7 ELF seem to be equipped with 1GB, and
>>> the ELF seems to be hard to get hold of over here. Also not 100% sure
>>> how one forces FEL mode on a A10 tablet if the NAND boot-loader gets
>>> fucked.
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