Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 9/5/09, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:21:07AM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Just a few more cents from me... Have you guys ever seen one of those other smartphones booting? They take ages too. The main difference is that we

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread arne anka
How old frameworkd do you have in Debian? All issues with IdleNotifier should be already fixed! the official one is still 5.1, and there are packages by heiko stübner for 5.5 from mid-august (i guess, the packages are from august 20th). isn't there a way to follow the shr releases for debian?

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 9/6/09, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: How old frameworkd do you have in Debian? All issues with IdleNotifier should be already fixed! the official one is still 5.1, and there are packages by heiko stübner for 5.5 from mid-august (i guess, the packages are from august 20th). isn't

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
How old frameworkd do you have in Debian? All issues with IdleNotifier should be already fixed! the official one is still 5.1, and there are packages by heiko stübner for 5.5 from mid-august (i guess, the packages are from august 20th). isn't there a way to follow the shr releases for

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread arne anka
SHR uses always newest frameworkd from git, as frameworkd from git is rather kept stable all the time ;) ok. brings me back to my old question: how does one create deban packages from git? ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread arne anka
Just things take some time because of the nature of debian. sure. but the nature of debian plus low man power in pkg-fso adds up to a rather large delay. i am still confused by the complexity of creating deb packages and i don't use git so far (and probably will not until a working eclipse

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
SHR uses always newest frameworkd from git, as frameworkd from git is rather kept stable all the time ;) ok. brings me back to my old question: how does one create deban packages from git? Debian packaging for fso components is done from git. Pkg-fso repositories in git.debian.org are

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Sunday 06 September 2009 13:20:01 Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: How old frameworkd do you have in Debian? All issues with IdleNotifier should be already fixed! the official one is still 5.1, and there are packages by heiko stübner for 5.5 from mid-august (i guess, the packages are

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread arne anka
Debian packaging for fso components is done from git. Pkg-fso repositories in git.debian.org are clones of repositories on git.freesmartprone.org, with debian packaging files added on separate branches. could you give some step by step commands? how do i check out the most recent version with

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Debian packaging for fso components is done from git. Pkg-fso repositories in git.debian.org are clones of repositories on git.freesmartprone.org, with debian packaging files added on separate branches. could you give some step by step commands? how do i check out the most recent

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-09-05 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:21:07AM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Just a few more cents from me... Have you guys ever seen one of those other smartphones booting? They take ages too. The main difference is that we have to boot more often :) Do we? I can't comment on your SHR

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Friday 21 August 2009 06:21:52 Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Not really. Reloading (in the worst case) 128MB from an SD is not exactly fast either. The only sane way to substantially improve booting time is to stop booting like a desktop PC, that is move away from starting all services

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Helge Hafting
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 06:21:52 Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Not really. Reloading (in the worst case) 128MB from an SD is not exactly fast either. The only sane way to substantially improve booting time is to stop booting like a desktop PC, that is move away from

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Friday 21 August 2009 16:36:07 Helge Hafting wrote: Now, implement suspend-to-disk (SD-card), and you can start reasonably quick after changing the battery. It should take around 40 seconds to read the memory back from SD, so if you can live with that, implementing suspend-to-disk might be

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Werner Almesberger
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: The only sane way to substantially improve booting time is to stop booting like a desktop PC, that is move away from starting all services just because you can. Start them on demand and bring only the bare necessities up on boot (filesystems, dbus, X). Yes,

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Tilman Baumann
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 16:36:07 Helge Hafting wrote: Now, implement suspend-to-disk (SD-card), and you can start reasonably quick after changing the battery. It should take around 40 seconds to read the memory back from SD, so if you can live with that,

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/8/21 Tilman Baumann til...@baumann.name Remember, there is almost absolutely no use case for total shutoff and suspend to 'Disk' since you want your GSM to stay on line on suspend. And for that everything but past resume from RAM is useless. There are many use cases if you're on battery

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Edder
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote: 2009/8/21 Tilman Baumann til...@baumann.name Remember, there is almost absolutely no use case for total shutoff and suspend to 'Disk' since you want your GSM to stay on line on suspend. And for that everything but past

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Tilman Baumann
On 21 Aug 2009, at 18:10, Edder wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote: 2009/8/21 Tilman Baumann til...@baumann.name Remember, there is almost absolutely no use case for total shutoff and suspend to 'Disk' since you want your GSM to stay on

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Friday 21 August 2009 18:13:14 Tilman Baumann wrote: Booting after init still takes ages. I don't know, but it seems to be a IO throughput problem rather then CPU speed. We're just doing too much at this stage. What I would wish for is quicker GSM login. I think have the latest firmware,

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:56:42PM -0500, c_c wrote: Hi, I would look for a decent middle path. A reasonable boot time, perhaps 30 secs to fully usable, and charging required in say 3 days of some measure of activity assumed to be normal (we could define something as a benchmark). And for

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-20 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Any chance suspend to disk, or 'hibernate' would work on openmoko? 2009/8/19 Glenn glenn.mh...@gmail.com Maybe this might be possible in some future of Openmoko Linux?: 07/15/09, NEWS: MontaVista claims an ultra-fast 1 second Embedded Linux Boot Time:

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-20 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:02:45 Michal Brzozowski wrote: Any chance suspend to disk, or 'hibernate' would work on openmoko? Not really. Reloading (in the worst case) 128MB from an SD is not exactly fast either. The only sane way to substantially improve booting time is to stop booting

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Mickey, Not really. Reloading (in the worst case) 128MB from an SD is not exactly fast either. The only sane way to substantially improve booting time is to stop booting like a desktop PC, that is move away from starting all services just because you can. Start them on demand and

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Maybe this might be possible in some future of Openmoko Linux? Yes and no. Of course and not. :-) Depends on what your definition of cold boot is. There are trade-offs here, as always. As I understand it, the read-only text of the kernel was in ROM (could have been Flash), so did not have to

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:01:29PM -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: make the battery last longer in normal running mode, suspend and deep suspend, rather than shortening the (hopefully) once per year boot cycle. Once per year? :) Up until recently was once per day (minimum), but since 8-8's

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Once per year? :) Up until recently was once per day (minimum), but since 8-8's SHR-U I haven't returned to that sad average! /* gentle rant on Which is *exactly* my point. I have a friend of mine who's multi-user Linux system was recently up for thirty days before a power failure caused it to

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/20 Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org: I have a friend of mine who's multi-user Linux system was recently up for thirty days before a power failure caused it to go down. I had a Digital Unix system on my desk up for an entire year without rebooting. We had cases of VAX/Ultrix systems up

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
i've never understood the fascination of linux users with keeping systems up for days and months on end. sure, it's great for a server hosting web sites, or in a corporate environment, but for a home system? it comes across as nothing more than who's the most '1337', which is really lame. add to

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-19 Thread c_c
. We're getting there. Now, if only we could write down a priority wise sequence of problems that need solving somewhere and tackle them one at a time with all the resources we have. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/One-second-Openmoko-boot--tp3474833p3476622.html Sent from

Re: Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Mogensen
Robin Paulson wrote: i've never understood the fascination of linux users with keeping systems up for days and months on end. sure, it's great for a server hosting web sites, or in a corporate environment, but for a home system? it comes across as nothing more than who's the most '1337',