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Quotes of the week (Linus special)

Quotes of the week (Linus special)

Posted Oct 16, 2009 12:05 UTC (Fri) by madhatter (subscriber, #4665)
In reply to: Quotes of the week (Linus special) by roblucid
Parent article: Quotes of the week (Linus special)

ouch.

i note in passing that the openmoko GTA02 sidestepped the problem neatly by having *two* boot loaders. one is fully-writeable, gets upgraded from time to time, and this is the one that normally boots from cold to start the OS; the other is read-only but can be used to reflash either the OS or the writeable boot loader.

very hard to brick, that device.


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Quotes of the week (Linus special)

Posted Oct 16, 2009 16:55 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Very hard to brick unless you let the battery run down!

(admittedly, that's now fixed)

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