Status of TCS211 on C139

[david at matthews.pm]

Hi Mychaela

>https://www.freecalypso.org/experimental-builds/tcs211-c139-build20151105.tar.bz2

danke!

>
>The difference is that leo2moko was believed (correctly) to be a stable
>release suitable to be called moko12, whereas the current build for
>C139 is *known* to *not* work in a practically usable manner - so it
>just gives you a peek as to what to expect when the LCD garbage and
>other pressing bugs get fixed.

yeah, understood

>You know how to back up the previous flash content so you can go back
>if you need to, right?

Well I did this on the freerunner, so yes, I think so. In any case, bricking would not be so disastrous - I'm going to put this known buggy release on a c139 that has some hardware (I think) issues. Hopefully it will be confidence building practise before flashing the phone I actually use.

>
>I am also going to put out a packaged release of the current FC host
>tools (loadtools + rvinterf tools) so you and others in a similar
>position won't have to build a gcc cross-compiler toolchain for ARM7
>just to compile loadagent and compalstage.  Loadtools require these
>target-side components, thus one has to either compile them from
>source or use a packaged release of loadtools, and the last such
>"official" release (loadtools-r2 from 2014-01) predates the addition
>of Compal target support.
>

that's also gonna be helpful, thank you

--
David Matthews
david at matthews.pm