Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)
El Friday, 25 de September de 2009 06:37:19 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller va escriure: Am 24.09.2009 um 22:44 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen: I tried to merge the two trees a couple of months ago, but the NAND flash code has changed so much that merging in the 2442 support requires knowledge of how the NAND flash interface works. I don't have that knowledge. Is this code somewhere available? I personally don't have the experience for the 2442 you mention, but others could be interested as well. http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=summary ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)
Am 25.09.2009 um 08:46 schrieb Jose Luis Perez Diez: El Friday, 25 de September de 2009 06:37:19 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller va escriure: Am 24.09.2009 um 22:44 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen: I tried to merge the two trees a couple of months ago, but the NAND flash code has changed so much that merging in the 2442 support requires knowledge of how the NAND flash interface works. I don't have that knowledge. Is this code somewhere available? I personally don't have the experience for the 2442 you mention, but others could be interested as well. http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=summary Is there the merged tree Rask did mention? As far as I can see it is the OM fork and miles away from the 2009.08 u-boot. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:18:30PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: The idea of having a simple GUI boot loader could be very useful... We have one. It's called U-Boot. Or am I missing something? Apart for a fact that it has problem loading kernels over a certain size? Not as such, but it does lack kernel size detection when reading from NAND flash. The config shipped by OM limits NAND flash kernels to 2 MB. Does anybody actually (want to) ship kernels larger than that? Andy-tracking's packaging config comes out to around 1.7 MB. NAND flash kernel size detection wouldn't be all that difficult to add, though. Around 10-20 lines of code. Or that it requires the kernel on a separate partition (which must be fat?)? It doesn't. I have the kernel on the Debian rootfs, which is ext2. I also have an old SHR installation, also with the kernel on the ext2 rootfs. But this begs the question: could U-boot be improved to deal with the current requirements of the users? Probably. The first step is to list the requirements. -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen Danish law requires addresses in e-mail to be logged and stored for a year ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)
Am 24.09.2009 um 19:36 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:18:30PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: The idea of having a simple GUI boot loader could be very useful... We have one. It's called U-Boot. Or am I missing something? No, except that it is not really u-boot but a 2 years old fork that is now no longer maintained. u-boot 2009.08 has improved many things that could be nice to have on a GTA02 as well. Apart for a fact that it has problem loading kernels over a certain size? Not as such, but it does lack kernel size detection when reading from NAND flash. The config shipped by OM limits NAND flash kernels to 2 MB. Does anybody actually (want to) ship kernels larger than that? Andy- tracking's packaging config comes out to around 1.7 MB. NAND flash kernel size detection wouldn't be all that difficult to add, though. Around 10-20 lines of code. Or that it requires the kernel on a separate partition (which must be fat?)? It doesn't. I have the kernel on the Debian rootfs, which is ext2. I also have an old SHR installation, also with the kernel on the ext2 rootfs. But this begs the question: could U-boot be improved to deal with the current requirements of the users? Probably. The first step is to list the requirements. -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen Danish law requires addresses in e-mail to be logged and stored for a 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
Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:08:53PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: No, except that it is not really u-boot but a 2 years old fork that is now no longer maintained. I tried to merge the two trees a couple of months ago, but the NAND flash code has changed so much that merging in the 2442 support requires knowledge of how the NAND flash interface works. I don't have that knowledge. u-boot 2009.08 has improved many things that could be nice to have on a GTA02 as well. You say many things but don't mention even one thing. -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen Danish law requires addresses in e-mail to be logged and stored for a year ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)
Am 24.09.2009 um 22:44 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:08:53PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: No, except that it is not really u-boot but a 2 years old fork that is now no longer maintained. I tried to merge the two trees a couple of months ago, but the NAND flash code has changed so much that merging in the 2442 support requires knowledge of how the NAND flash interface works. I don't have that knowledge. Is this code somewhere available? I personally don't have the experience for the 2442 you mention, but others could be interested as well. u-boot 2009.08 has improved many things that could be nice to have on a GTA02 as well. You say many things but don't mention even one thing. -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen Danish law requires addresses in e-mail to be logged and stored for a 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
