Re: [Banshee-List] Podsleuth + iPod firmware update

["Aaron Bockover" <abockover novell com>]

Patryk,

Awesome!

About 1.5 years ago I started writing firmware updating code into
ipod-sharp. Most of that code is still useful I hope. I abandoned the
effort because Apple changed the way they delivered firmware updates to
the iPod and thus made it harder for us to replicate, so if you've
solved that new part of the problem, maybe we should start the effort
again in ipod-sharp.

The code I wrote is here:
http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/ipod-sharp/src/Firmware/

Now, maybe Apple completely changed how they package firmware and none
of this code is useful anymore. I don't know. It used to be a DMG image
with a bunch of raw firmware files in it. My code handled extracting
firmwares from the image, among a few other things, in 100% managed
code.

I can easily expose UpdaterFamilyID via PodSleuth, and I'll make that
change in svn soon.

Best,
Aaron

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:10 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just subscribed so please excuse me if i say something stupid. Today
> I felt like writing some proof of concept code so I checked the URIs
> visited by iTunes and created a simple iPod firmware updating script.
> 
> The code is available at http://code.google.com/p/ipod-update/ to look
> at. It works at least here so feel free to play but it would certainly
> benefit from integrating parts of it into podsleuth itself.
> 
> The first thing I would ask for is exposing the UpdaterFamilyID via
> HAL properties. This is needed to find the proper firmware version for
> the device in question as you can see in the code. Being able to ask
> podsleuth to upload the firmware would be another great feature (so no
> root access is required) either via DBus or some suid binary.
> 
> Of course I'm open to ideas and criticism so feel free to yell.
> 
> Cheers,
>