Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-20 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:14:28 +0200, Christ van Willegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're interested to visit the edge and know how to DFU stuff around with NOR to get yourself in and out of trouble, you can get a

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-15 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Joel Newkirk wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:05:59 +0200, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) Isn't there a way to update/configure the NOR u-Boot too? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_NOR The NOR image sample there is a broken link now. I'm presuming that it's NOT just the same u-boot bin as

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-15 Thread Christ van Willegen
Andy, On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're interested to visit the edge and know how to DFU stuff around with NOR to get yourself in and out of trouble, you can get a moredrivers kernel here

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-14 Thread Sarton O'Brien
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 02:58:13 Joel Newkirk wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:48:50 +0200, David Samblas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El lun, 13-10-2008 a las 00:42 -0400, Joel Newkirk escribió: Which one way or another goes to highlight that Qi - as it stands now and from what I

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-14 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:03:53 +1100, Sarton O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2008 02:58:13 Joel Newkirk wrote: If there's NO uSD, or the uSD doesn't contain a folder named 'boot' on the first partition, with a file named 'uImage.bin', then Qi will boot from NAND. It's

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Joel Newkirk wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:03:53 +1100, Sarton O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing with the current scenario, invoking a generic boot from nor means you lose any benefits of an updated u-boot/qi in nand? As in you may see power management regressions and the

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-14 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:05:59 +0200, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel Newkirk wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:03:53 +1100, Sarton O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing with the current scenario, invoking a generic boot from nor means you lose any benefits of an

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-14 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:42:13 -0400, Joel Newkirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:29:53 +0100, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for trying it and reporting it, you'll get further with uSD boot right now. Now I've successfully booted from uSD with Base Image and

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-13 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Newkirk wrote: Now I've successfully booted from uSD with Base Image and 2.6.27. Linux om-gta02 2.6.27-andy-tracking_2ffb4cc483642df1-mokodev #12 PREEMPT Sat Oct 11 13:06:05 BST 2008 armv4tl unknown. (although every other attempt or so it

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-13 Thread Cédric Berger
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:34, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's planned for partition selection is you will in future be able to press AUX while Qi is pulling in the kernel it selected to abort the load and move to next usable partition, so I think multiboot will work out fine if

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-13 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cédric Berger wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:34, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's planned for partition selection is you will in future be able to press AUX while Qi is pulling in the kernel it selected to abort the load and move to

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-13 Thread David Samblas
El lun, 13-10-2008 a las 00:42 -0400, Joel Newkirk escribió: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:29:53 +0100, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Newkirk wrote: Qi boots like a dream - no kernel messages scrolling by, just turns on backlight

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-13 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:48:50 +0200, David Samblas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El lun, 13-10-2008 a las 00:42 -0400, Joel Newkirk escribió: Which one way or another goes to highlight that Qi - as it stands now and from what I understand of the intention for it - will not be usable for a

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-13 Thread Thorben Krueger
[Sorry, this may be slightly off topic] May I draw the attention of those whom it might concern to the following article on LWN, where some guys got linux to boot on an eee pc in 5 seconds: http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ Am I the only one whose eyes are dreamy and glazed over after reading

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-13 Thread David Samblas
El lun, 13-10-2008 a las 11:58 -0400, Joel Newkirk escribió: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:48:50 +0200, David Samblas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El lun, 13-10-2008 a las 00:42 -0400, Joel Newkirk escribió: Which one way or another goes to highlight that Qi - as it stands now and from what I

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-13 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Green ha scritto: Cédric Berger wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:34, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's planned for partition selection is you will in future be able to press AUX while Qi is pulling in the kernel it selected to abort the load and move to next usable partition,

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-12 Thread Armin ranjbar
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:21:35 +0200 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it is usable... I've tried it weeks ago and it basically said me that gpsd was using really so much cycles also if the GPS was off, that's why I generally kill it if I've no GPS need. But it was saying

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-12 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Newkirk wrote: Qi boots like a dream - no kernel messages scrolling by, just turns on backlight on a black screen for about 5 seconds (heartstopper of sorts the first time) then the graphical boot progress screen appears. I'd guesstimate

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-12 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:29:53 +0100, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Newkirk wrote: Qi boots like a dream - no kernel messages scrolling by, just turns on backlight on a black screen for about 5 seconds (heartstopper of sorts the

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:35:37 +0330, Armin ranjbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well , 2.6.27 released , i have noticed few Great feature that can help Openmoko device , * Kexec hibernation * Voltage and Current Regulator Another very handy new 'feature': UVC and GSPCA webcam drivers are both

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Armin ranjbar
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:29:39 +0100 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good , is there any milestone , todo on this ? how we can help ? By the way , why don't you include 'powertop' ? Hi - I spent a lot of time tracking upstream HEAD for several months, we do have development 2.6.27

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Bumbl
Armin ranjbar wrote: Well , 2.6.27 released , i have noticed few Great feature that can help Openmoko device , * Voltage and Current Regulator really? they included phc? fantastic one thing which would be good for openmoko too and which was included is that they included ubifs which is way

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Armin ranjbar wrote: Well , 2.6.27 released , i have noticed few Great feature that can help Openmoko device , * Kexec hibernation * Voltage and Current Regulator Hi - I spent a lot of time tracking upstream HEAD for several months, we do

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Bumbl
Armin ranjbar wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:29:39 +0100 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good , is there any milestone , todo on this ? how we can help ? By the way , why don't you include 'powertop' ? Hi - I spent a lot of time tracking upstream HEAD for several months, we do

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Armin ranjbar
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:22:54 +0200 Bumbl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe because afaik powertop is by intel and for x86 cpus only? humm ... is it ? since debian has Arm package for that , i thought its usable on arm -- Armin ranjbar , System Administrator

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Florian Hackenberger
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Andy Green wrote: for daredevils this works with the U-Boot replacement Qi (image is ready for DFU into NAND bootloader) http://people.openmoko.org/andy/qi-andy_ab8665e9ac10a054.udfu sources: http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=summary Qi will boot from

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Armin ranjbar wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:22:54 +0200 Bumbl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe because afaik powertop is by intel and for x86 cpus only? humm ... is it ? since debian has Arm package for that , i thought its usable on arm Yes it is usable... I've tried it weeks ago and

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Hackenberger wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2008, Andy Green wrote: for daredevils this works with the U-Boot replacement Qi (image is ready for DFU into NAND bootloader) http://people.openmoko.org/andy/qi-andy_ab8665e9ac10a054.udfu

Re: Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

2008-10-11 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:29:39 +0100, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - I spent a lot of time tracking upstream HEAD for several months, we do have development 2.6.27 kernel based on upstream release 2.6.27. Not everything works yet but it's basically there. If you're interested to