Hello all, I develop programs on the mini2440 (1GB) FriendlyARM board and I want to clone the whole environment to other boards. Can I simply backup the NAND flash to get the ".bin" backup file and use "restore the backup file" to copy the backup file to the NAND flash of other boards ? Thank you, Anat
if other board is the same i think yes but you have to modify may be the parameters from ethernet because the mac address not is a same if you want execute it to other board .
umm... while I have no interest in cloning, I ran into this thread looking for MAC address :-) I thought that all mini2440's ship with same mac-id programmed/configured ?
I am currently developing a linux-based embedded application intended to be deployed on no less than 100 different micro2440 modules. At first, I tought that saving the .bin image from my development module and restoring it in another module should work OK, but the truth is that the restored module usually reports filesystem failures and will not work properly. I suspect that the restoring procedure just writes NAND blocks in the same order that they are stored in the .bin, WITHOUT cheking if that particular NAND block is marked as bad in the target module. As a result if you have bad luck, your target module will have bad NAND blocks y places where the original module had usefull parts of the filesystem and it will become corrupted. Currently, I'm trying to find some other method of cloning the NAND but so far I haven't come out with nothing useful.