On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:10:40PM +0100, Petr Vanek wrote: > >>> So what do you suggest? > >> > >> A tiny root filesystem which presents some kind of menu and then uses > >> kexec to start the new kernel. I have recently started to work (well > >> if time permits) on this kind of thing. > > > >Feel free to ping me on irc for suggestions how to use external > >initramfs with Qi.
Thanks Paul I will come back to that later (I actually have some questions regarding it). > i have tried this before by using kexec, please search the devel > archives. as i am not a coder, i needed to use X that made it huge and > quite slow for this purpose, if you can make it working directly with fb > it would be awesome :) Yeah I have read the thread. You got it down to ~12sec if I remember correctly. I will probably post to -devel to outline my ideas and get some general input from others once I got a bit further. Marc -- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
