On Tuesday 14 October 2008 02:58:13 Joel Newkirk wrote: > 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.
I'm guessing with the current scenario, invoking a generic boot from nor means you lose any benefits of an updated u-boot/qi in nand? As in you may see power management regressions and the like? Sarton _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community