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May 05 11:58:40 <ant_work> VartiWork, hello
May 05 11:59:55 <ant_work> so finally the models with 128M like SL-C760 SL-C860 SL-C1000 SL-C3100 SL-C3200 need the patched maine.bin from cacko to be used after repartitioning
May 05 12:00:00 <ant_work> greguu, ^
May 05 12:00:33 <ant_work> I can not test the tosa but should be ok from factory (I hope)
May 05 12:03:45 <ant_work> otherwise the kernel used by updater.sh would not recognize th ealtered partitions and default to the precompiled sizes for older C700 with 64M  (on my 860 7+ 30M root, 27M home)
May 05 12:03:52 <ant_work> so...
May 05 12:04:15 <ant_work> I have added the routine to flash that binary blob
May 05 12:25:58 <VartiWork> what a mess
May 05 12:26:40 <VartiWork> so that might be the reason of the problems booting kexec 4.4.8 I'm having on my akita?
May 05 12:27:25 <VartiWork> I don't remember how's my NAND partitioned, but I'm sure it's not partitioned as the C700
May 05 12:28:14 <VartiWork> is the source of maine.bin available, or can it be obtained?
May 05 12:28:58 <VartiWork> btw, unrelated, but just in case: http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34549&pid=283079&st=0&#entry283079
May 05 12:36:39 <ant_work> it is in the /tools dir of cacko's 1.23
May 05 12:37:00 <ant_work> is not the source, is the modified mainte.bin + some parameters
May 05 12:37:05 <ant_work> (version)
May 05 12:37:24 <ant_work> it should be possible to patch instead of overwriting but it is much easier
May 05 12:37:42 <ant_work> see http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~rimemoon/zaurus/memo_006.htm
May 05 12:38:04 <ant_work> it is 256 + first 64k of parameters
May 05 12:39:26 <ant_work> in the OESF forums if you look there are posts about the 64M limit
May 05 12:40:00 <ant_work> affecting clamshells with 128M, which are using the same mainte of c700 apparently
May 05 12:40:47 <ant_work> I don't know if they had the sources and recompiled or just did some hex edit
May 05 12:44:31 <ant_work> http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3361&st=0&p=20469&#entry20469
May 05 12:44:35 <ant_work> VartiWork, ^
May 05 12:54:38 <VartiWork> so that means that a stock, SL-C760 or newer is factory partitioned to use only the first 64MB, and the rest is unused?
May 05 12:55:12 <ant__> only if you repartition it
May 05 12:55:23 <VartiWork> aha
May 05 12:55:27 <ant__> with stoandard parts is ok (53+68M on C860)
May 05 12:55:35 <VartiWork> I see now
May 05 12:55:48 <ant__> once you change that, the mainte kernel sees a checksum mismatch I guess
May 05 12:55:58 <ant__> because there is one more copy around
May 05 12:56:12 <VartiWork> I remember the official japanese zaurus dev site to be still up, the one with the Lineo's Linux sources, I wonder if mainte.bin sources are there too
May 05 12:56:15 <ant__> ..at a variable location, per device
May 05 12:56:43 <ant__> it should be the same kernel, with that nandlogical stuff
May 05 12:57:45 <ant__> anyway, I am testing on C860 with SYSTC860.BKP v 1.10 and 1.40
May 05 12:57:49 <VartiWork> http://support.ezaurus.com/
May 05 12:57:52 <ant__> I can't find anymore the 1.20
May 05 12:58:20 <ant__> iirc is the same
May 05 13:00:35 <ant__> the problem with the variable offsets is originated by the FTL
May 05 13:01:05 <ant__> the blocks can be remapped so the physical address changes
May 05 13:01:15 <ant__> it's a no-go
May 05 13:04:46 <VartiWork> anything useful here? http://support.ezaurus.com/developer/source/source_dl.asp
May 05 13:05:46 <ant__> these are the 2.4 sources I took the partitioner from
May 05 13:06:26 <VartiWork> ok
May 05 13:06:52 <VartiWork> (btw that site is another mirroring candidate)
May 05 13:07:10 <ant__> heh..this is the official source
May 05 13:08:57 <VartiWork> I'll see if I can mirror it tonight for my repository
May 05 13:10:03 <ant__> good idea
May 05 13:10:19 <ant__> sources are GPL but there are legal warnings
May 05 13:10:23 <ant__> pls read before
May 05 13:10:34 <ant__> (I am not expert about this laws)
May 05 13:14:31 <VartiWork> thanks for the heads up, I will
May 05 13:15:21 <VartiWork> in doubt, I can still host it on the server, but keep it offline
May 05 13:15:46 <VartiWork> and send a gzipped copy on request
May 05 13:43:28 <ant__> VartiWork, do  you have a copy of the backups of conics?
May 05 13:44:04 <ant__> http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/service-menus/original-backups/
May 05 13:44:09 <ant__> and more
May 05 13:44:18 <VartiWork> no :(
May 05 13:44:29 <VartiWork> I have only the trisoft ones
May 05 13:45:22 <VartiWork> I'll have to see if anything can be retrieved from archive.org
May 05 13:46:16 <ant__> I think I have the 1.20 on some old cd
May 05 13:46:26 <ant__> not sure
May 05 13:46:35 <VartiWork> I remember having seen a mirror of some of the files from conics, if I remember correctly they were backups for the C+D recovery kernels (?)
May 05 13:47:01 <ant__> probably
May 05 13:47:28 <VartiWork> AFAIR not available from the trisoft site
May 05 13:48:01 <VartiWork> wait, the page you have linked might have been exactly what I'm talking about
May 05 13:48:04 <ant__> afair only the first dev devices, maybe the C700, had the risk of brick
May 05 13:48:31 <ant__> later they mounted a PROM and not a NOR flash
May 05 13:48:47 <ant__> so the copy used pressing Fn + D + M is always there
May 05 13:49:12 <ant__> cannot be erased...
May 05 13:49:20 <VartiWork> no, it containd the NAND backups: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20090214073134/http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/service-menus/original-backups/
May 05 13:50:39 <ant__> there was also some recovery stuff
May 05 16:59:08 <ant__> Varti, I'm going
May 05 16:59:43 <ant__> I'll push the rest later
May 05 16:59:45 <ant__> https://github.com/LinuxPDA/meta-handheld/commits/master
May 05 16:59:59 <ant__> this is the base for the repartitioner
May 05 17:01:19 <ant__> bbl
May 05 23:00:06 <ant_home> hey Varti
May 05 23:01:19 <ant_home> after n times I have found a shortcut for the flash menu (updater.sh): you press R in kexecboot while pressing OK. easy
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