On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:50:42 +0400 Paul Fertser <fercer...@gmail.com> said:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> writes: > >> This would require that the kernel partition in NAND is formated as a > >> filesystem but then Qi couldn't read from it. Or am missing something > >> obvious here? > > > > the fs can be mounted as an offset from the start of a partition. you cn > > even split it into 2 partitions. 1 for kernel, 1 for rootfs. as such qi > > SHOULD be able to technically - it can read krenels from a FILESYSTEM on > > sd. it can read fs's. no reason it cant read an fs from nand too (in > > principle) other than simply that having not been written in or explicitly > > avoided (can't think of a good reason myself if u handle fs's already). > > And indeed Qi does read FSes from NAND. It uses ext2 factory partition > to extract usb MAC. then no reason cramfs can't be added... or is it already there? imho it should be. that'd make the "kernel partition" much cleaner as it is a realfs - not just a kernel splatted onto the raw nand. oit allows for nice paritioning of that space for use of multiple bits of data - ie kenrel plus this rescuefs etc. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
