I was having some fun with Google - I came across a bootloader that
looked exactly like the one for the x50v for some reason...
http://bateman.dhs.org/~richard/tmp/arm/bootloader/bootldr
It seems to belong to one Richard Bateman :) He seems to have been
using IDA on it (which is what I was about to do as well)
http://www.bfamily.us/~richard/tmp/arm/bootloader/bl.asm
What are the odds?
On 11/30/05, tcpaulh <tcpaulh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > For those who have been working on CRCs, what happens if the CRC
> > is wrong? Does it actually give an error message?
> >
>
> Your result mirrors ours. The bootloader doesn't report whether there is a
> CRC present or not. We don't know what is displayed if the CRC file is
> correct. After trying various hex and text versions just containing a valid
> CRC using different algorithms I'm thinking that the file must contain some
> extra data that the loader is looking for. Trying to brute force this would
> seem to be pointless.
>
> Perhaps our best bet at this stage is for somebody to decompile/reverse the
> bootloader itself after dumping a ROM and see what kind of info it expects
> to find in the CRC file.
>
> Any takers?
>
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