--- On Sat, 1/2/10, Konstantin wrote:
I thought that uboot was discontinued and Qi took its place. Now, it seems to me
that Qi is discontinued?
There's appearently a newer build (Jan 2010) available at
http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/unstable/NeoFreerunner/ -
is this the recommended bootloader now? Do I lose features comparing to Qi by
going back to uboot (faster boot time,faster suspend/resume, better SD/SDHC
support)?
Regards,
Konstantin
Well, as far as I know uboot and qi are updated from time to time, there is no
replace one for the other or vice versa, is more which one fits your needs. The
main difference between qi and uboot is that qi is needed for kernels bigger
that 2MB like the one used with Android - (but I don't know if the last release
of uboot can manage this kind of kernels size) -, and the kernel and the
filesystem can be in the same partition, instead of the 2 partitions used with
uboot.
Maybe someone that knows the 'up to date' features of each one can give you the
wide range of defferences.
The SHR's kernel is less than 2MB, so there's no problem at all. And ones it is
working with the 2 partitions (kernel and filesystem), you can switch between
bootloaders to test which one you like the most.
Best regards.
Adrian.
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