41CL Self-Update

[rprosperi]

I've completed several updates using Monte and Sylvain's tools. I've done:

1. Fully automatic scan and auto-update - success (but slow...)
2. Manual scan and auto-update - success (much faster)

To-do next:

3. Skip scanning (take list of updated pages from server --diff report), manual marking of pages to update, then auto-update (faster still)

4. Skip scanning (take list of updated pages from server --diff report), manual marking of pages, then manual updating (possibly the fastest option, but also a bit more tedious, requiring many precise flash update command sequences, so in the end could be not as fast as option 3).

Once you grok how this all works, option 3 is the clear way to go if you have a relatively small update to do (e.g. 1-3 or 4 update ROM pkg releases).

If you have a quite old CL board, and many updates are required, you can do the fully automatic scan & update without really needing to understand the magic, and thereby get a shiny new ROM set with very little effort. In my case, there were > 200 changes, and the fully auto process took 4+ hours, but for 99.99% of that it just did its own thing, beeping occasionally to let you know things are proceeding.

Jump in, the water is fine.