Draco AW80 some pleasant surprises - Amazon Prime ¦ TennisTV.com ¦ HD playback - and gotchas

[fredphoesh]

The line, properly entered, works for me

cool, thanks.

[Zahir]

cool, thanks.

BTW, one of the Draco's good points is that it's almost unbrickable. The reset button-OTG flash system ensures that.

[Finless]

BTW, one of the Draco's good points is that it's almost unbrickable. The reset button-OTG flash system ensures that.

+100, ask me how I know. Every box I have developed on including 3188/3288 at some point I had to take it apart to short NAND pins to get out of a hard brick. With all the tampering I have been doing on this A80, I have not hard bricked it. When I start messing with MBR though all bets might be off

Bob

[Zahir]

Yep, if anyone would know this box's strength in that department, it would be you, Bob. You go close to the edge for our benefit every day.

[JustMe]

+1000 even for half century bloke he goes hard

[Finless]

MBR

As you can see lost of wasted NAND space!

System is only about 500 megs yet 1.5G is reserved!
More also can be gained out of the others. 32 megs for loader? Its less than 16!
I also do not understand what all the reserved partitions are for! I don't see how they are used. Also there is a sys recovery which looks like a copy of /system. Maybe for recover on it's own??? Not needed in my opinion.

Bob




[partition_start]

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p2/nanda
[partition]
name = bootloader
size = 32768
downloadfile = "bootloader.fex"
user_type = 0x8000

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p5/nandb
[partition]
name = env
size = 32768
downloadfile = "env.fex"
user_type = 0x8000

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p6/nandc
[partition]
name = boot
size = 32768
downloadfile = "boot.fex"
user_type = 0x8000

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p7/nandd
[partition]
name = system
size = 1572864
downloadfile = "system.fex"
user_type = 0x8000

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p8/nande
[partition]
name = misc
size = 32768
user_type = 0x8000

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p9/nandf
[partition]
name = recovery
size = 65536
downloadfile = "recovery.fex"
user_type = 0x8000

;------------------------------
[partition]
name = sysrecovery
size = 1572864
downloadfile = "sysrecovery.fex"
user_type = 0x8000
verify = 0

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p10/nandg
[partition]
name = private
size = 32768
keydata = 1
user_type = 0x8000

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p11/nandh
[partition]
name = Reserve0
size = 32768
keydata = 1
user_type = 0x8000

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p12/nandi
[partition]
name = Reserve1
size = 65536
user_type = 0xc100

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p13/nandj
[partition]
name = Reserve2
size = 32768
user_type = 0xc100

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p14/nandk
[partition]
name = cache
size = 1310720
user_type = 0xc100

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p1/nandl, UDISK
[partition]
name = UDISK
downloadfile = "diskfs.fex"
user_type = 0xc200
verify = 0

[Zahir]

Yours is the kind of investigation that gives real hope for the Draco. It's apparent to me that its firmware is - well - experimental. With its hardware, the machine should snap to attention at every command - but it hardly does that.

Keep on probing, Bob, and let's make a list of all that you find. Maybe that's the kind of data collection which would strengthen Eric's hand with Tronsmart.

[no_spam_for_me]

As you can see lost of wasted NAND space!

System is only about 500 megs yet 1.5G is reserved!

:

;------------------------------> mmcblk0p7/nandd
[partition]
name = system
size = 1572864
downloadfile = "system.fex"
user_type = 0x8000

:

[Finless]

Yours is the kind of investigation that gives real hope for the Draco. It's apparent to me that its firmware is - well - experimental. With its hardware, the machine should snap to attention at every command - but it hardly does that.

Keep on probing, Bob, and let's make a list of all that you find. Maybe that's the kind of data collection which would strengthen Eric's hand with Tronsmart.

I have not done All Winner in a LONG TIME so I am learning as I go! Right now it is probing

Bob

[Zahir]

I have not done All Winner in a LONG TIME so I am learning as I go! Right now it is probing

Bob

You've forgotten more than most of us will ever know..so if you're applying yourself to this fella, you'll soon master his every quirk. And he seems to have a couple.