Q4B08.rom works in debricking too 1.75 B1

[Martin Langhoff]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:17 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:39:47PM -0700, Cherry Withers wrote:
>> I don't know if this was verified already or not, but it seems to work
>> so far.
>
> Thanks, you've been brave.  The worst outcome would have been a brick.

Why would this be risky? Developers who receive a B1 as shipped from
factory (bricked) are being advised to upgrade to Q4B06 in the wiki,
but I'll happily substitute that for the latest released OFW.

> so I really don't recommend testing a
> new version unless you have the electronics equipment available for
> reprogramming of the SPI FLASH chip.

That's bogus -- we are asking *all* recipients of B1 units to test
with the latest version of OFW as it is released. If you brick your
unit doing so, help us debug the situation, and don't worry about the
hw. If you cannot unbrick it, I'll gladly send another one.

cheers,



m
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