On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:03:53 +1100, "Sarton O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 October 2008 02:58:13 Joel Newkirk wrote:
>> 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 Correct. NOR U-Boot only supports SD booting off FAT+EXT3, for example - if the kernel isn't in a FAT/VFAT partition it barfs. (though interestingly it should be possible to boot the same distro off SD with either of two kernels - Qi looking for /boot/uImage.bin and NOR UBoot looking for a uImage file in the root of a FAT partition) j _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
