[Arm-netbook] evaluating rk3188

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> ok can i make a suggestion: see if you can find a copy of the
>> original 1st bytes on the NAND (whatever they were) and then write
>> those as the 1st "thing".
>> I bet you there is some sort of signature that's supposed to be in
>> the 1st bytes.
>
> That's possible, indeed, but I don't know what those first bytes should be.

 that's why i said get an existing RK3188 and make a copy from that.

> The closest to a "human-readable" firmware I could find was the
> "Finless" firmware, where various partitions are visible as separate
> .img files.  I tried to install the .img files from that one (including
> the first one which apparently goes to addresses starting at 0x0), but
> that didn't seem to help.  Then again, it seems to want to install
> another file (some kind of bootloader) at the same address, so I'm kind
> of lost.

 ok then you will need to consider that other suggestion of using the
w32-based tools to reflash it.  if you can run USB-based monitoring to
capture the USB traffic whilst doing that, then that would be good.

 ... i actually installed xp under qemu, installed the a10 flash
program in that, configured qemu to be able to access the USB bus,
then did modprobe usbmon i think it is :)

 you don't *have* to quotes have a windows box quotes.

l.