asking the same questions i came up with these answers: > Should I think of u-boot as the OpenMoko version of Grub?
kinda. and some kind of bios, maybe. > In which > case why can't opkg update this? because (that's what i figured out) it's binary data and written directly. the area might not even be accessible from within the running fr. > opkg can also update the kernel and the root filesystem, right? > Advantages/disadvantages with the two approaches? flashing should be faster (never tried, though) and easier. and it works w/o working network on the fr. > Does flashing the root filesystem wipe out /home? yepp. that's a big disadvantage imho. in short (and hope of correction): - flashing uImage and rootImage are equivalent to doing opkg update && opkg upgrade, but flashing rewrites the whole fs, so everything modified is lost - uBoot can only be flashed _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
