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Un-Bricking Linux Plug Computers

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-the-impervious-patched-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Accidentally 'bricking' a little Linux plug computer doesn't have to be forever. This is a good howto on repairing a non-booting Linux plug computer. For example if it uses the uBoot environment then it already has some good built-in recovery tools. The article also mentions ESIA, the Sheevaplug installer, openocd, and GuruPlug."

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  1. Re:Hear that? It's the sound of NOBODY CARES. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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  2. JTAG rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bricked my sheevaplug which I bought last December at the 27C3, due to a bad U-Boot flash. It was extremely easy to recover using JTAG & OpenOCD (which also works fine under Windows XP, a nice surprise). For other devices however, like the WRT*, unbricking requires soldering a JTAG header and finding a JTAG cable, not so easy :(

    BTW there's a new plug just release, the DreamPlug. A bit like the SheevaPlug bit with two Ethernet ports & wifi. Looks like a cool little beast, although the CPU like the sheevaplug is a bit underpowered.