Thanks to Radek, I indeed also needed to download an untar the modules. All good, great work.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Denis Johnson <denis.john...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good work, > > Do I only need the .bin or the config and modules also. I have tried > just the .bin using qtMoko v16 image and it boots quite quickly to qt > ui then cycles to black screen with blinking cursor then after some > time back to qt screen then back to black screen. etc > > cheers Denis > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just FYI to the community list, as slowness has been one of the >> biggest problems with Neo. Quite nice speedups are coming: >> >> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2010-January/010811.html >> (performance testing by Gennady Kupava) >> >> Apparently, and unfortunately, no-one had really questioned Om Inc:s >> (who mainly did the kernel work back in the days of the still mostly >> used 2.6.29) choices of kernel configuration. Disabling kernel debug >> features and pre-empt has resulted eg. these kind of improvements >> (from IRC, #openmoko-fi): >> - boot time 68.5% of original >> - "apt-cache search nano" 20s -> 14.8s >> - "emacs -f kill-emacs" 3.8s -> 2.2s >> >> These configuration changes are not yet in andy-tracking (the 2.6.29 >> kernel still being used in most distros), I don't know what's the >> situation in the new om-2.6.32 branch. Together with the quite recent >> commit from Thomas White that doubled theoretical glamo speeds (in >> practice at least 20% in general), I feel that Neo FreeRunner is not >> anymore "terribly slow", but only "slow" by today's standards, which >> is quite an improvement. Especially after having been used to the >> "terribly slow" general behavior ;) >> >> Please tell if some distro happened to have those disabled already, >> and if someone knew about these speedups via the options already - and >> please arrange a commit to git.openmoko.org next time! Anyway, this >> all goes to show that in a project with limited resources like >> Openmoko, especially now that it's completely in the hands of the >> community when it comes to Neo FreeRunner development, you have to >> have the courage to question anything "suspicious" etc. you are >> seeing, not trusting that someone has actually optimized something to >> the extent assumed. >> >> If you want to have a quick grab of the new kernel for Debian (or any >> distro that loads uImage from a file), I put my compilation of kernel >> and modules to >> http://users.tkk.fi/~tajyrink/moko/kernel_20100108_nodebug_nopreempt/ >> >> -Timo, wishing everyone a speedier new year >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community