Flashing a phone with Firefox OS

[Christian Weisgerber]

If you want to use FreeBSD to flash your phone with Firefox OS...
https://firefoxos.mozilla.community/devices/
... you need to install these packages:

  bash
  android-tools-adb
  android-tools-fastboot

And you'll want to apply the simple patch at the end of this message
to circumvent some Linux-isms in Mozilla's flashing script.  I've
successfully used this to put Firefox OS onto a Nexus 5.

Details on Firefox OS are sparse, but judging from the availability
of Mozilla-maintained nightly builds, the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 serve
as the current development platforms.  The Nexus 5 is a two-year
old design with reasonable specs and it looks like the remaining
stock is currently being sold, so this is an opportunity to jump
on the Firefox OS bandwagon.


diff -uNrp b2g-distro.orig/flash.sh b2g-distro/flash.sh
--- b2g-distro.orig/flash.sh	2015-11-30 13:28:22.000000000 +0100
+++ b2g-distro/flash.sh	2015-11-30 21:36:50.038615000 +0100
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/local/bin/bash
 
 . load-config.sh
 test -f $DEVICE_DIR/flash.sh && . $DEVICE_DIR/flash.sh
 
 ADB=${ADB:-adb}
-FASTBOOT=${FASTBOOT:-fastboot}
+FASTBOOT=${FASTBOOT:-/usr/local/bin/fastboot}
 HEIMDALL=${HEIMDALL:-heimdall}
 VARIANT=${VARIANT:-eng}
 FULLFLASH=false
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ run_fastboot()
 
 update_time()
 {
-	if [ `uname` = Darwin ]; then
+	if [ `uname` != Linux ]; then
 		OFFSET=`date +%z`
 		OFFSET=${OFFSET:0:3}
 		TIMEZONE=`date +%Z$OFFSET|tr +- -+`
diff -uNrp b2g-distro.orig/load-config.sh b2g-distro/load-config.sh
--- b2g-distro.orig/load-config.sh	2015-11-30 13:28:22.000000000 +0100
+++ b2g-distro/load-config.sh	2015-11-30 21:32:36.328867000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/local/bin/bin/bash
 
 if [[ ! -n "$B2G_DIR" ]]; then
   B2G_DIR=$(cd `dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}`; pwd)
-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de