Hi, On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Paul Fertser <[email protected]> wrote:
> And in fact if anybody of those talking about bootmenu, multiboot and > such really needed it he would have done it himself long time ago. I > bet trying and tweaking all distros including Qtopia, Qtmoko, Android, > H:1 etc etc took them 10x time required to build a minimal > bootmenu. > Well, this (statements like those above) is why the shoemaker's children is still running around barefoot. :-) (For those not catching the reference - the shoemaker can make shoes for his children at any time, he just never makes it a priority.) Developers and users have different views of what is required to make a device usable. Unless the developers recognize that, and produce something that the users find acceptable, the device in question will remain a gadget for developers. I had hopes that I would be able to use my FreeRunner as a user one day, heck I still have that hope. If that doesn't happen I (and probably a few others) will be a bit dissappointed. Hm, i have my "normal" one on uSD and in case i screw something up i > just boot pre-installed 2007 from NAND by pressing AUX button at the > right time (and yes, i can't manage it with 100% success rate but > taking out the battery and trying again is not a big deal). > Lucky you. I have tried the "press AUX button" trick a lot of times, I can _never_ make Qi boot anything other that the default (first) partition on my SD card. Like this: - I don't press anything, the default partition gets booted - I press AUX (hopefully at the right time), and Qi never finshes booting anything (not in 5 - 10 minutes anyway). Someone said that Qi is unusable by "normal" users. I wanted to prove > it wrong. > IMHO, you failed to prove anything. I still say that Qi is unusable for normal users - it doesn't have a reliable way for users to select which partition to boot. To a user, it might look like this: - U-boot wasn't working correctly with newer (bigger) kernels, so the developer(s) abandoned it - instead they created Qi to be newer, better, faster and so on - Qi isn't living up to promises for users I'm not saying that such a view is correct, but that is how it can look like from a users view. By derfinition, only developers can fix the software. Now, will any developer step up and fix Qi (or U-boot) so that it will be usable for users? If no developer wants to scratch that particular itch, the FreeRunner will remain a gadget for developers only. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
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