Dfu-util
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dfu-util is a program that implements the Host (PC) side of the USB DFU (Universal Serial Bus Device Firmware Upgrade) protocol.
In the Openmoko project, we use this program to communicate with our specially enhanced U-Boot, which implements the DFU device side.
Using dfu-util and your smartphone, you can
- transfer and flash partitions in internal NAND Flash.
- transfer anything into RAM
- this can be used for fast development cycles of low-level code such as kernels without flashing them
- read out the current internal NAND partitions
- this is an easy and efficient way of doing full backups of your phone
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Source Code
Dfu-util is currently maintained at http://dfu-util.gnumonks.org/.
On Debian and Ubuntu, you'll need libusb-dev: sudo apt-get install libusb-dev autogen pkg-config autotools-dev autoconf automake
On Fedora you'll need libusb-devel and libusb-static: yum install libusb-devel libusb-static
On Gentoo you can: emerge -va openmoko-dfu-util
You can check out and build the latest version of dfu-util using the following git command:
git clone git://git.openezx.org/dfu-util.git
cd dfu-util
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
The resulting binary is dfu-util/src/dfu-util.
Binaries
Binary packages will be made available as part of the regular Openmoko builds. Currently, there is a dfu-util for Linux/i386.
You need to make the downloaded file (dfu-util) executable with:
chmod +x dfu-util
you can then run it with
./dfu-util
see below for full instructions.
Debian
dfu-util 0.0+r4880-1 is packaged for Debian >= lenny, so can be installed with: apt-get install dfu-util
Ubuntu
dfu-util 0.0+r4067-3.1 is packaged for Ubuntu >= intrepid (8.10), so can be installed with: apt-get install dfu-util
Slackware
dfu-util is packaged for Slackware (12.1), so can be installed with: pkgtool
A newer SlackBuild is also available on slackbuilds.org
Arch Linux
dfu-util is packaged for Arch Linux, so can be installed with makepkg
openSuSE
The links below install rpm packaged dfu-util in (open)SuSE :
1-Click Install for openSuSE 10.3
1-Click Install for openSuSE 11.0
1-Click Install for openSuSE 11.1
1-Click Install for openSuSE Factory
CentOS
Fedora
Mandriva
RHEL
Gentoo
DFU-Util is in the main tree under the name openmoko-dfu-util.
Windows
Currently, there is a largely untested binary for Win32 (see Dfu-util-windows). Windows users can refer to No_Linux for a more tested approach.
Mac
Compiling dfu-util on Mac:
- http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-July/008438.html
- User:SNMoore
- MacOS_X#Flashing_to_your_device
- Openmoko Flasher has a precompiled binary in the App bundle
Manual
See Manuals/Dfu-util
