Re: Avoid duplicates on ML (was: Re: Fundamental Qi question)

2009-06-17 Thread Jose Luis Perez Diez
El Wednesday, 17 de June de 2009 07:49:16 Evgeniy Karyakin va escriure:  More offtopic: how about not to start new thread with every mail from you? For reading this ML I use GMail web interface and ~95% of messages from you are shown as new threads despite that messages are obviously replies

Re: Avoid duplicates on ML (was: Re: Fundamental Qi question)

2009-06-17 Thread Evgeniy Karyakin
. El Wednesday, 17 de June de 2009 07:49:16 Evgeniy Karyakin va escriure: More offtopic: how about not to start new thread with every mail from you? For reading this ML I use GMail web interface and ~95% of messages from you are shown as new threads despite that messages are obviously replies

Re: Avoid duplicates on ML (was: Re: Fundamental Qi question)

2009-06-16 Thread Evgeniy Karyakin
To avoid getting duplicates (when a person sends a mail To or Cc you and the list at the same time) one just needs to set his personal preferences (and for most ML it's default to avoid duplicates), for mailman it's described in [1]. [1]

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-07 Thread roguemoko
On 6/06/2009 6:26 PM, arne anka wrote: stop answering to me at all! From one dolt to another, stop trying to convert threads with your own agenda and answer the original frakkin question, or ask your own ... or stay silent and this won't happen. You have some worthwhile input when you stay

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-06 Thread roguemoko
On 3/06/2009 6:32 PM, arne anka wrote: Oh did I say that questioning Qi was spreading FUD and mail congestion? that's how i understood it. Well you'd be wrong again. There's an old saying about assumptions but I'll leave that up to you to research, or you could just take a stab at it as you

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-06 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:32:27AM +0200, arne anka wrote: now i see, that indeed qi with flash has at least ... limited usability, because obviously due to jffs2 support (however that is possible, since jffs2 is the first fs of the freerunner) that file appending boot options can not

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-06 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 21:15, Rask Ingemann Lambertsenr...@sygehus.dk wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:32:27AM +0200, arne anka wrote: now i see, that indeed qi with flash has at least ... limited usability, because obviously due to jffs2 support (however that is possible, since jffs2 is the

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-06 Thread arne anka
now i see, that indeed qi with flash has at least ... limited usability, because obviously due to jffs2 support (however that is possible, since jffs2 is the first fs of the freerunner) that file appending boot options can not be read. Qi can read the kernel from NAND simply because

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-06 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 21:42, arne ankaopenm...@ginguppin.de wrote: now i see, that indeed qi with flash has at least ... limited usability, because obviously due to jffs2 support (however that is possible, since jffs2 is the first fs of the freerunner) that file appending boot options can

Replying to messages (Was: Fundamental Qi question)

2009-06-06 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:13:20PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: Now imagine i see a message from some person, with some ML (i'm subscribed to Cc'd). Also there's like 5 persons in Cc list, that are addressed explicitly because they have something to do with the topic (like they're subsystem

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Werner Almesberger wer...@openmoko.org 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

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread Martin Jansa
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:55:58AM +0200, Laszlo KREKACS wrote: 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

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Martin Jansa martin.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Its easy to reformat or repair system on SD cart with laptop or PC.. I dont have uSD card reader on my laptop. And I bought it 3 months ago. My previous laptop had SD card reader, but never worked with linux. (I would

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread arne anka
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. my experience is, that nand is far more reliable

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread Jose Luis Perez Diez
El Thursday, 4 de June de 2009 09:56:36 Martin Jansa va escriure: Its easy to reformat or repair system on SD cart with laptop or PC.. but I always feel bad when I have to remove back-cover. How long can that plastic fixtures hold back-cover tight and reliably? I have done it at least 600

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/4 Jose Luis Perez Diez perezd...@gmail.com: El Thursday, 4 de June de 2009 09:56:36 Martin Jansa va escriure: Its easy to reformat or repair system on SD cart with laptop or PC.. but I always feel bad when I have to remove back-cover. How long can that plastic fixtures hold back-cover

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread Werner Almesberger
Laszlo KREKACS wrote: I use the distribution on NAND as an SD card reader. Hmm, I think we have to distinguish between things you can do and things that actually make sense here ;-) Once you've started to fill the niches, it's always unpleasant to change. That's one reason why it's difficult to

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread Werner Almesberger
arne anka wrote: - what reasons make you say, sd is the future? The main reasons are: - much easier handling. SD is like a disk, so you can use all the standard tools and get standard behaviour. NAND needs a lot of exceptional treatment to properly address wear and factory-bad blocks.

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-03 Thread arne anka
Oh did I say that questioning Qi was spreading FUD and mail congestion? that's how i understood it. My apologies. I'll rephrase. Criticising features you know nothing about in a thread about a question you contributed nothing to is spreading FUD and causing mail congestion. what exactly is

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-03 Thread Werner Almesberger
roguem...@roguewrt.org wrote: I booted from flash and SD card for quite some time. I think it's best to consider Qi as an SD-centric solution and to plan migrating towards SD. NAND support is only there because of the GTA01/GTA02 legacy and it has limitations compared to SD. While technically

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-02 Thread Cameron Frazier
Just to provide another data point for those in doubt, I run Qi with SHR on the NAND, and no uSD install. The only issue I have is that /boot on the NAND is not respected/read, but I can live with that. No additional configuration was required, I flashed Qi and it just worked. Kind regards,

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-02 Thread arne anka
Just to provide another data point for those in doubt, I run Qi with SHR on the NAND, and no uSD install. The only issue I have is that /boot on the NAND is not respected/read, but I can live with that. how does one add additional kernel arguments, which according to the wiki is done by

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-02 Thread Cameron Frazier
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: Just to provide another data point for those in doubt, I run Qi with SHR on the NAND, and no uSD install.  The only issue I have is that /boot on the NAND is not respected/read, but I can live with that. how does one add

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-02 Thread arne anka
My understanding is that not respecting the /boot/append-GTA0[123] is a NAND-only hardcoded limitation, since NAND has different partitions for ROOTFS and KERNEL. that's what i understood and i specifically looked into the wiki, to make sure i understood right. still, if /boot/ is not read,

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:28:07 pm Cameron Frazier wrote: My understanding is that not respecting the /boot/append-GTA0[123] is a NAND-only hardcoded limitation, since NAND has different partitions for ROOTFS and KERNEL. I suspect that it's more to do with the fact that Qi only understands

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-02 Thread roguemoko
On 2/06/2009 11:19 PM, arne anka wrote: how does one add additional kernel arguments, which according to the wiki is done by creating a file /boot/append-GTA0[123]? oops, sorry. i forgot, questioning qi is spreading fud and causing mail congestion ... Oh did I say that questioning Qi was

Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Chris Samuel
Hi folks, Am I right in thinking that if you are using Qi and have flashed a JFFS2 image to your NAND which has a /boot with a kernel in it then it will boot that kernel in preference to the one that you have flashed directly with dfu-util ? cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel :

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org writes: Am I right in thinking that if you are using Qi and have flashed a JFFS2 image to your NAND which has a /boot with a kernel in it then it will boot that kernel in preference to the one that you have flashed directly with dfu-util ? No, Qi doesn't

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Fertser
arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de writes: No, Qi doesn't support jffs2. bummer. how's that -- it makes qi unusable for everybody using the internal flash as primary device and forces to boot from sd card. not sensible imo. How's that? Why don't you want to use the kernel flashed to

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread arne anka
No, Qi doesn't support jffs2. bummer. how's that -- it makes qi unusable for everybody using the internal flash as primary device and forces to boot from sd card. not sensible imo. How's that? Why don't you want to use the kernel flashed to dedicated nand partition? as far as i

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Fertser
arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de writes: as far as i understood from the qi discussions, qi does not use that partition but looks for a specific file in a specific location, make the kernel nand partition unnecessary. so, if it can't read jffs2, one cannot boot from flash. You should have

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread arne anka
You should have read Qi wiki page or Qi source code instead. well, i follow the discussion on the lists a long time. if that kind of information is not worth to be mentioned, i certainly do not expect it to be mentioned in either wiki or code. would you please stop, to cc me always and

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Chris Samuel
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:09:02 pm Paul Fertser wrote: No, Qi doesn't support jffs2. That's what I thought. But, in that case, how come my Om2009 phone boots into 2.6.29-rc2 (which is in /boot in the JFFS2 image) and not to the 2.6.28 image I've flashed to it ? Flashed with: dfu-util -d

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Fertser
arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de writes: You should have read Qi wiki page or Qi source code instead. well, i follow the discussion on the lists a long time. if that kind of information is not worth to be mentioned, i certainly do not expect it to be mentioned in either wiki or code. Source

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org writes: On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:09:02 pm Paul Fertser wrote: No, Qi doesn't support jffs2. That's what I thought. But, in that case, how come my Om2009 phone boots into 2.6.29-rc2 (which is in /boot in the JFFS2 image) and not to the 2.6.28 image I've flashed

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread arne anka
Source code is what actually compiles to binary that then runs on device. So it's the ultimate source of information about what and how it is supposed to work. Any discussions on ML especially those filled with inaccurate conclusions drawn from nowhere can't get you any clear understanding of

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Chris Samuel
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:49:11 pm Paul Fertser wrote: File name is wrong, the kernel is 2.6.29 actually. Look at the git hash. Ahh, good call, eventually traced it to this to confirm that.. http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=blob_plain;f=Makefile;hb=f19f259d3c1afde8eae53983fd19f61831927413

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Fertser
arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de writes: Source code is what actually compiles to binary that then runs on device. So it's the ultimate source of information about what and how it is supposed to work. Any discussions on ML especially those filled with inaccurate conclusions drawn from nowhere

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:07:10PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: My MUA is flexible enough to strip _forged_ Reply-To header that this list errorneously adds to every mail. So i'm perfectly aware how this fucking mailing list works and i had to explicitly workaround this stupidity. There's a

Avoid duplicates on ML (was: Re: Fundamental Qi question)

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Marcel tan...@googlemail.com writes: Am Montag, 1. Juni 2009 14:32:26 schrieb Paul Fertser: Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau maxpose...@gmail.com writes: My MUA is flexible enough to strip _forged_ Reply-To header that this list errorneously adds to every mail. So i'm perfectly aware how

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen r...@sygehus.dk writes: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:07:10PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: My MUA is flexible enough to strip _forged_ Reply-To header that this list errorneously adds to every mail. So i'm perfectly aware how this fucking mailing list works and i had to

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-01 Thread roguemoko
On 1/06/2009 9:14 PM, arne anka wrote: No, Qi doesn't support jffs2. bummer. how's that -- it makes qi unusable for everybody using the internal flash as primary device and forces to boot from sd card. not sensible imo. I booted from flash and SD card for quite some time. Your information