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NAME

0xFFFF - Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher

SYNOPSIS

0xFFFF [options]

DESCRIPTION

The ‘Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher’ aka 0xFFFF utility implements a free userspace handler for the NOLO bootloader and extended features for flashing, dumping and getting information for the Nokia Internet Tablets.

Supported devices

SU-18 Nokia 770
RX-34 Nokia N800
RX-44 Nokia N810
RX-48 Nokia N810 Wimax
RX-51 Nokia N900

Operations

-b [cmdline]

boot default or loaded kernel (default: no cmdline)

-b update

boot default or loaded kernel to Update mode

-r

reboot device

-l

load kernel and initfs images to RAM

-f

flash all specified images

-c

cold flash 2nd and secondary image

-x [/dev/mtd]

check for bad blocks on mtd device (default: all)

-E file

dump all device images to one fiasco image, see -t

-e [dir]

dump all device images to directory, see -t (default: current)

Device Configuration

-I

identify, show all information about device

-D 0|1|2

change root device: 0 - flash, 1 - mmc, 2 - usb

-U 0|1

disable/enable USB host mode

-R 0|1

disable/enable R&D mode

-F flags

change R&D flags, flags are comma separated list, can be empty, see section "R&D flags"

-H rev

change HW revision

-N ver

change NOLO version string

-K ver

change kernel version string

-T ver

change initfs version string

-S ver

change SW release version string

-C ver

change content eMMC version string

Input Image

-M file

specify fiasco image

-m arg

specify normal image
arg is [[[dev:[hw:]]ver:]type:]file[%lay]

  dev is device name string (default: emtpy), see section "Supported devices"

  hw are comma separated list of HW revisions (default: empty)

  ver is image version string (default: empty)

  type is image type (default: autodetect), see section "Supported image types"

  file is image file name

  lay is layout file name (default: none)

Image filters

-t types

filter images by type

-d dev

filter images by device

-w hw

filter images by HW revision

Fiasco image

-u [dir]

unpack fiasco image to directory (default: current)

-g file[%sw]

generate fiasco image with SW rel version (default: no version)

Other options

-i

identify images

-s

simulate, do not flash or write on disk

-n

disable hash, checksum and image type checking

-v

be verbose and noisy

-h

show help message

R&D flags

no-omap-wd

disable auto reboot by OMAP watchdog

no-ext-wd

disable auto reboot by external watchdog

no-lifeguard-reset

disable auto reboot by software lifeguard

serial-console

enable serial console

no-usb-timeout

disable usb timeout for flashing

sti-console

enable sti console

no-charging

disable battery charging

force-power-key

force omap boot reason to power key

Supported image types

xloader
2nd
secondary
kernel
initfs
rootfs
mmc
cmt-2nd
cmt-algo
cmt-mcusw

Supported connection protocols

Local on device
NOLO via USB
Cold flashing via USB
Mk II protocol via USB
RAW disk via USB

EXAMPLE

Print device information

0xFFFF -I

Load kernel/initramfs without flashing

0xFFFF -l -b "<cmdline>" -m kernel:<file> -m initfs:<file>

Flash kernel (or second bootloader) and reboot

0xFFFF -m kernel:<file> -r

AUTHOR

Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>

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