[Arm-netbook] It arrived in the post just now!

Christopher Thomas christopher at firemothindustries.com
Wed Jul 31 14:42:26 BST 2013





On Jul 31, 2013, at 6:29 AM, "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Henrik Nordström
> <henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
>> ons 2013-07-31 klockan 01:40 +0100 skrev luke.leighton:
>> 
>>> surpriiise!  i take it they're aware that those buffer overruns - a
>>> stupid bug which i fixed in the 3.3 a20-dev code i initially tested -
>>> probably resulted in allwinner's employees going down a whooole slew
>>> of increasingly-desperate modifications to the A20 USB codebase, when
>>> in fact the problem was simply stack/memory corruption?
>> 
>> Yes, but the issues in 3.4 is different, not really A20 related even.
>> 
>>> yes.  i'm running fel-boot, that works fine, loads off the uSD....
>>> buuuut there's nothing on the NAND (i wiped it).  that's a little
>>> different from bootstrapping from android.
>> 
>> Yes quite different, and with the fel jumper hidden it's not so easy for
>> anyone else to fel boot.
> 
> ... unless you completely wipe the NAND, in which case the cpu will
> jump to fel every time.
> 
>>>> Right.. should also write up a document on how to disassemble the PCMCIA
> question, henrik: did the CPU card have a yellow protective sleeve,
> top and bottom inside?
> 
> if not, i'm going to be *really* pissed.
> 

> l.
> 
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