[Gta04-owner] GPS GTA04A3

Radek Polak psonek2 at seznam.cz
Sun Jul 29 00:40:59 CEST 2012


On Sunday, July 29, 2012 12:23:44 AM Christoph Mair wrote:

> It is not supported out of the box by existing software. Currently
> only the bootloader can be uploaded using the serial line. It could
> also be possible to transfer a kernel image (but I'm not sure).

Yes, this works.

> If this works, you could boot a linux kernel with a initramfs. Then
> configure the USB port for network access and copy your target system
> to the flash memory.

QtMoko kernel [1] has initramfs. I used to have busybox in the initramfs and 
it was possible to many things using serial line - enough to flash some distro 
to NAND.

Regards

Radek

[1] http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/debian/gta04/linux-image-3.2-qtmoko-
gta04_46-1_armel.deb


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