I said I'd never blog

There is a very nice and fast alternative to using dfu-util to flash images on the Openmoko Freerunner phone:

• boot the developer version of hackable:1 on an SD card
• use dd like this:

# cat Hackable1-Openmoko-Freerunner-user-daily-rootfs.jffs2 /dev/zero | \
     		| dd of=/dev/mtdblock6

for the root filesystem, and:

# cat uImage.bin /dev/zero | dd of=/dev/mtdblock3

for the kernel.

Even better, if you don't want to create a temporary copy of the image to flash, transfer it on the fly via SSH:

# cat Hackable1-Openmoko-Freerunner-user-daily-rootfs.jffs2 /dev/zero | \
     		progress ssh root@192.168.0.202 dd of=/dev/mtdblock6
     [...]
139853824 bytes (140 MB) copied, 278.255 s, 503 kB/s

Just omit progress if you don't run NetBSD, or use either this port or this version.