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How do I edit the Gigabeat Flashwriter to accept my checksum? Is it safe?

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blackbird:
I've looked around the bugtracker for rockbox, and I've noticed a very interesting patch for the Gigabeat Fs. It apparently flashes the flash memory so that it does not have to use Toshiba's factory bootloader. Many people, even people who have not followed development(ie. people who changed the code to accept foreign checksums) have attempted to use the writer, and for many, it works. IT seems like the success rate of the writer is very high, and i'd like to try it. However, I don't know how to edit the code to accept my "foreign" checksum, or how to get a checksium in the first place. Can someone help me(I know, I'm stupid).

Does anyone think this is safe, or at least safe enough to try?
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/7505

LambdaCalculus:
The Gigabeat flashwriter plugin is a patch which you must add into the source code yourself and then compile into a Rockbox build.

However, please note that you can still run a risk of bricking your device! Even well-tested code is not going to be 100% safe from failure.

See the WorkingWithPatches wiki page for info on how to use the patch. If you haven't compiled Rockbox code before, check out the HowToCompile and CrossCompiler pages for more information on how to build Rockbox from source.

Again... USE THE PATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK.

blackbird:
Hmm, is it really that complicated? I thought it was simply something that you could put into the plugin folder and use. I don't know if I'm capable of recompiling code.

GodEater:
That would depend on your definition of "complicated" I suppose. Many people find that getting the rockbox code and compiling it isn't nearly as difficult as they imagine it to be once they actually try it. Then again there are those who never get the hang of it. If you fall into the latter group, then you're not techy enough to be messing with this patch in my opinion.

BdN3504:
i tried compiling that patch, but i always get some file not found errors. I placed it in the root folder using "patch -p0 <". Do i have to place this patch somewhere else?

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