The new code gets closer to an actual bootloader:
- it provides a menu with three options: Sony, Rockox, tools with icons (and
extracts the Sony logo from the NVP)
- the dualboot install script now creates a symlink from /.rockbox to
/contents/.rockox which is necessary to run rockbox
- more text drawing / framebuffer functions
In the long run, we will move this under bootloader/ and rbutil/ and also use
firmware/ drawing facilities, at the moment we use OF display program which
is slow and creates some flickering.
The logo extraction/placement code was tested with resolution 240x320 and I
guessed some reasonable values for 240x400, but those will probably need some
tweaking.
Change-Id: I0319be902d21a7d33c1dee0fffdb4797065dbf8a
At the moment, the script install_duaboot does the following:
- rename SpiderApp to SpiderApp.of (unless it already exists)
- install payload as SpiderApp
- fixes permissions
Since SpiderApp is the main app, it will execute instead of the OF.
The current dualboot code (dualboot.c) is still a preliminary but the current
version displays an "all tools" menu to choose for. When exitting the menu
using BACK, it will run the OF.
With the modifications made by the install script, it should not be possible
to break the device. In the worst case scenario, the dualboot code crashes
and it restarted by the sysmgrd, or hangs. A safe way to recover is to plug
the USB cable and reset the device: the system manager will then start the
USB app and one can reflash the device if necessary.
Change-Id: Id9edab0347538ad2a8651a28aea7fd083feaa626
This is useful because there is no easy way to get it except from Sony's tool,
unless one knows the npv node, but that requires to know the model already...
Change-Id: I202f7cdb2f7cf924cc5bdb53c17e34600d4bf153
The exec_file allows to embed a script/executable and run it on target. It takes
of unpacking, remounting contents rw and redirect output to exec.txt at the root
of the drive. More generally, rework how the makefile works.
Change-Id: Iec719227be96e80701ad8f5398d2d34389f4da9e