[Sorry, this may be slightly off topic] May I draw the attention of those whom it might concern to the following article on LWN, where some guys got linux to boot on an eee pc in 5 seconds: http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
Am I the only one whose eyes are dreamy and glazed over after reading this? Can we learn anything from this? 2008/10/13 Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:48:50 +0200, David Samblas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> El lun, 13-10-2008 a las 00:42 -0400, Joel Newkirk escribió: > >>> Which one way or another goes to highlight that Qi - as it stands now >> and >>> from what I understand of the intention for it - will not be usable for >> a >>> dual-boot setup. Not a problem actually, as NOR uBoot will let us >> achieve >>> that, and I realize that the common target case will be a user who wants >> a >>> smartphone, not a multiboot development platform. I just realized that >> the >>> default behavior of Qi being uSD and the default behavior of uBoot being >>> NAND means you could place 'primary' on uSD and 'secondary' in NAND, and >>> booting to secondary is just two-step - NOR boot with aux+power, then >> power >>> again to boot. Don't you love that feeling when things start to click? >> :) >>> Now I have Base/Empty firing up by default, Raster+FSO if I use aux to >>> invoke NOR Uboot. >>> >>> j >> I'm not a kernel hacker only a user, but as I undertand It would be >> better to invert that behaviour, better to primary boot from NAND and >> then secondary boot on uSD, a normal user must boot his phone even >> without any uSD. Normal boot to nand, and if you want to boot from >> anything else do something else. It's a pitty than NOR uboot doesn't >> allow to boot from uSD by default, but this fault does't have to change >> the logical behaviour NAND is attached to the phone and is less likely >> blow up the hole S.O. sa mistake by a normal user putting some music in >> his uSD card trough a 2.0 Card reader :) seekeng for some free space > > If there's NO uSD, or the uSD doesn't contain a folder named 'boot' on the > first partition, with a file named 'uImage.bin', then Qi will boot from > NAND. It's just if you WANT a dual-boot environment that currently Qi > doesn't let you do that simply. As Andy noted in his response to that > post, however, he plans for Qi to support user selection of boot, it just > doesn't do it at this time. Until it offers the ability to select, then > the present behavior (check for kernel on uSD, else use NAND) makes more > sense that always going to NAND and only NAND. > > j > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community