let me preface this with thanking andy, all the devs and om for all the hard work. i'm really excited about om and their "free your phone" ideas. i am happy to support this effort by buying a phone that isn't 100%. that said, there are some things that irritate me...
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Andy Green <a...@openmoko.com> wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > | i have been reading about this fix for a couple weeks now and how it > | is in andy-tracking and testing and how it was supposed to be in > | stable "soon." reading your email, andy, i assume that it is now in > > Nicolas' patches went in to our stable kernel 12 days ago, but when the > various distros update to that, or if they want to use some different > kernel tree is up to them. do any of them document this? i can't for the life of me figure out which kernel each distro is using. why can't i just install what i want and then opkg upgrade to the latest? how dependent are the distros on the kernel? can i install a kernel from "here" and a rootfs (distro) from "there"? if so, where are the "blessed" kernels? > | so, my question is: what is the easiest way to get the wsod fix. > | which distro, which uimage, etc. my choice would be to use andy > | tracking since that seems to be the future but i understand that most > | of the distros will have some broken bits due to some changes. > | > | this is really the last annoyance for me in using the phone on a > | regular basis. > > The kernel packages in testing repository have the workaround: > > http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/om-gta02/ ok, thanks for the link but that is a list of packages. how do i get a phone with that on it? if i install om2008.9, does that get me there? do i need to opkg update/upgrade? do i need to modify my opk config first? if so, how? as i said above, i'm content to own a "brick" due to the fact that i want to support this effort but i'd still rather have a working phone; however, i just can't seem to get there. things are just too splintered. i can't figure out what bits to put together in order to get a working phone with my particular annoyance fixed. thanks, -peter _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community