On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Werner Almesberger <[email protected]> wrote: > NAND support is only there because of the GTA01/GTA02 legacy and it > has limitations compared to SD. While technically possible to bring > NAND support in Qi on par with SD, I think it would just make things > more complicated and lure people into using NAND whereas SD is the > future. > > In the GTA03 design, we would not have used NAND for anything but > storing Qi and read-only factory data. Likewise, for gta02-core, I > wouldn't consider using u-boot.
Hi! I use the distribution on NAND as an SD card reader. I load the OS, connect to my laptop, and I write the new distro to the uSD card. It is impossible to do it on the same SD card, from where the OS is running. You cant simply repartition the uSD card. For me the NAND partition is a perfectly usable *backup/emergency* OS. Furthermore, I used recently TangoGPS, and it broke the filesystem where the maps were located. It broked every time when the phone runned out of battery. Quick summary: vfat broken -> couldnt recover ext2 broken -> couldnt recover ext3 broken -> I could recover, but lost many files Luckely (thinking about any possibility before traveling), I had an OSM.tar file on the NAND with my backup OS, and I could reformat the SD card thousands kilometer away from my home without any computer or internet access. And I needed a map, because tangogps was all what I had.;) For me NAND is a musthave. I dont care about speed, or size. It is perfectly acceptable in *emergency* situation. I see only one alternativ: two uSD card slot. I think I made a fair point, so please save an emergency path. Relying only on uSD always require some third tool to recover. (eg: laptop with uSD card reader) Best regards, Laszlo _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
