Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has released installation packages for Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Linuxes, Mac OS X and Windows. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool supports flashing of N8x0 Diablo devices and coming Fremantle devices.


Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool details

- Version: 2.4.5.3 - Beta
- Date: June 30, 2009
- Hardware supported: Nokia N800, N810 and N810 Wimax with Diablo 4.1.x and Nokia NXXX with Fremantle 5.x


Supported operating systems

- Linuxes (Debian installation package available for Debian based Linuxes and tar ball for others)
- Windows XP with SP3 and Vista with SP1
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard


Downloads and documentation

- Flasher-3.5 downloads: http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php
- Flasher-3.5 documentation: <not available for this beta release>

Sources for libusb library (LGPL v2) installed as part of flasher-3.5 for Windows and Mac OS X:
- Libusb (Mac): http://pc-connectivity.garage.maemo.org/upstream/libusb-0.1.12.tar.gz
- Libusb-win32 (Win): http://pc-connectivity.garage.maemo.org/upstream/libusb-win32-src-0.1.12.1.tar.gz


Short description

The Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool is a command line utility that supports N800, N810 and N810 Wimax devices with Maemo Diablo 4.1.x platform releases and coming NXXX device with Maemo Fremantle 5.x platform release. Notice that older Maemo devices (like Nokia 770) and Maemo platform releases may require a specific flasher tool.

Flasher-3.5 is run from a Linux, Windows or Mac host computer, and it will send data and commands to the connected Maemo device over USB. Command line parameters supported by flasher-3.5 together with some usage examples are documented in Help.txt file available from installation packages. Flasher-3.5 binary gives also command line help if it is run without any parameter or with "--set-rd-flags" or " --clear-rd-flags" parameters.


Installation

The Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool should be installed from the installation package provided for Debian based Linuxes, Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X. For other than Debian based Linux distributions also compressed tar file is provided.

Installation of Maemo Flasher-3.5 requires administration rights in all supported operating systems.

Hi Jarmo,

your email and the download page do not mention any architectures.
Can you please add that information to the download page?

Am Dienstag, den 30.06.2009, 14:41 +0200 schrieb Jarmo.Tikka@nokia.com:
> Supported operating systems
> - Linuxes (Debian installation package available for Debian based
> Linuxes and tar ball for others)

Only x86? Or also PPC?

> - Windows XP with SP3 and Vista with SP1
> - Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

PPC and x86?

andre
--
Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)

Hi,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ext Andre Klapper [mailto:aklapper@openismus.com]
>Sent: 30 June, 2009 15:55
>Subject: Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and
>Diablo released
>
>Hi Jarmo,
>
>your email and the download page do not mention any architectures.
>Can you please add that information to the download page?

Sorry about that.

Only x86 and 32-bit for this beta release.

Main purpose to publish new Fremantle flashers, when there are no Fremantle devices yet available :), is to get feedback from maemo community and have true installation packages available for Eclipse Integration.

It would be great also to have GUI wrapper done for end users/developers on top of these (usable on all supported platforms Windows, Linuxes and Mac OS X :). Hint, hint ...

Cheers,
//Jarmo

>
>Am Dienstag, den 30.06.2009, 14:41 +0200 schrieb Jarmo.Tikka@nokia.com:
>> Supported operating systems
>> - Linuxes (Debian installation package available for Debian based
>> Linuxes and tar ball for others)
>
>Only x86? Or also PPC?
>
>> - Windows XP with SP3 and Vista with SP1
>> - Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
>
>PPC and x86?
>
>andre
>--
>Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)
>
>

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:41 AM, <Jarmo.Tikka@nokia.com> wrote:
> The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has released installation packages for Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Linuxes, Mac OS X and Windows. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool supports flashing of N8x0 Diablo devices and coming Fremantle devices.
>

One step forward and two steps back.

No PPC binary, and the installer will happily chug right along without
telling users that they're installing something they can't even use.

Hi,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ext Ryan Abel [mailto:rabelg5@gmail.com]
>Sent: 01 July, 2009 03:05
>Diablo released
>
>On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:41 AM, <Jarmo.Tikka@nokia.com> wrote:
>> The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has
>released installation packages for Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta
>for Linuxes, Mac OS X and Windows. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool
>supports flashing of N8x0 Diablo devices and coming Fremantle devices.
>>
>
>One step forward and two steps back.

Happy to see that you considered this Beta release to be at least one step forward (before ending up being one step backward :)

>
>No PPC binary, and the installer will happily chug right along
>without telling users that they're installing something they
>can't even use.

Only x86 and 32-bit support with this beta release. Could you explain in more detailed your installation problems. E.g. do you try to install Windows XP or Windows Vista or Mac OS X 10.x or Debian Linux or some other Linux or ...

Or are you trying to install Mac flasher-3.5 to PPC Mac? I do not Mac myself well enoug to say if architecture can be defined to the Mac installation package so that you will get some sensible error message if you try to install "wrong" architecture binary.

Cheers,
//Jarmo

On 06/30/2009 08:41 AM, Jarmo.Tikka@nokia.com wrote:
> The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has released installation packages for Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Linuxes, Mac OS X and Windows. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool supports flashing of N8x0 Diablo devices and coming Fremantle devices.
>

Any plan to release the source code of the Flasher?


Hub

Am Mittwoch, den 01.07.2009, 13:06 -0400 schrieb Hubert Figuiere:
> Any plan to release the source code of the Flasher?

Also see a thread from November/December 2008:
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-November/001367.html
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-December/001396.html

andre
--
Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)

*If* Nokia have no intention of open-sourcing this version of the
flasher (because it can flash the new "tablet" and Nokia may not like
the idea of releasing code relating to the internals of the new
"tablet"), then I'd sincerely hope that they would at release the code
to 3.0 as Nokia (yes, I mean Nokia: I'm not referring to Mer here)
have no intention of providing updates for the devices flasher-3.0
supports (not bitter about it in any way - I'm just telling it as a
statement of fact), it would be nice to have the source code to that
version. Of course: Only if this version or the latest final version -
whatever that may be - can't be open-sourced for whatever reason.

Best Regards,
Faheem

On 7/1/09, Hubert Figuiere <hub@figuiere.net> wrote:
> On 06/30/2009 08:41 AM, Jarmo.Tikka@nokia.com wrote:
>> The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has released
>> installation packages for Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Linuxes, Mac OS
>> X and Windows. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool supports flashing of N8x0 Diablo
>> devices and coming Fremantle devices.
>>
>
> Any plan to release the source code of the Flasher?
>
>
> Hub
>

Hi,

Some comments about opnesourcing flasher code below.

BTW I think flasher is the only closed source tool we have in maemo development environment. Or at least I do not know any other binary only tool :).

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ext Hubert Figuiere [mailto:hub@figuiere.net]
>Sent: 01 July, 2009 20:06
>Subject: Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and
>Diablo released
>
>On 06/30/2009 08:41 AM, Jarmo.Tikka@nokia.com wrote:
>> The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has
>released installation packages for Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta
>for Linuxes, Mac OS X and Windows. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool
>supports flashing of N8x0 Diablo devices and coming Fremantle devices.
>>
>
>Any plan to release the source code of the Flasher?

Sorry no plans for that. I think the main reason being that we use some 3rd party interfaces that cannot be published and because of that propably also some source code.

This is also business related issue as being able to freely update maintenance releases is of course the standard way of working but in commercial world being able to flash freely also new platform release to old hw (as we have provided in many cases) is not the standard way how or competitors work mainly befouse it is a lot of work to support old hw.

Cheers,
//Jarmo

>
>
>Hub
>

Jarmo.Tikka@nokia.com wrote:

> BTW I think flasher is the only closed source tool we have in maemo development environment. Or at least I do not know any other binary only tool :).
>

I think gcc/uclibc toolchain for initfs development would qualify but it
is much worse here, we even don't have the tool (despite GPL) :-(

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3373