after my last email, i went looking around the wiki and found this section: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Latest_Images#The_bleeding_edge:_Om_.22base_.2F_empty.22_images which talks about "testing" images and so i downloaded and flashed the following:
http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/testing/openmoko-testing-om-gta02.rootfs.jffs2 http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/testing/testing-om-gta02-20081216.uImage.bin booted it up and within 5-10 suspend/resume cycles i got the wsod again. should these images have the fix? if not, can someone point me to a kernel/rootfs that doesn't wsod? thanks, -peter On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Peter Abplanalp <pta-openm...@psaconsultants.com> wrote: > let me preface this with thanking andy, all the devs and om for all > the hard work. i'm really excited about om and their "free your > phone" ideas. i am happy to support this effort by buying a phone > that isn't 100%. that said, there are some things that irritate me... > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Andy Green <a...@openmoko.com> wrote: >> Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> >> | i have been reading about this fix for a couple weeks now and how it >> | is in andy-tracking and testing and how it was supposed to be in >> | stable "soon." reading your email, andy, i assume that it is now in >> >> Nicolas' patches went in to our stable kernel 12 days ago, but when the >> various distros update to that, or if they want to use some different >> kernel tree is up to them. > > do any of them document this? i can't for the life of me figure out > which kernel each distro is using. why can't i just install what i > want and then opkg upgrade to the latest? how dependent are the > distros on the kernel? can i install a kernel from "here" and a > rootfs (distro) from "there"? if so, where are the "blessed" kernels? > >> | so, my question is: what is the easiest way to get the wsod fix. >> | which distro, which uimage, etc. my choice would be to use andy >> | tracking since that seems to be the future but i understand that most >> | of the distros will have some broken bits due to some changes. >> | >> | this is really the last annoyance for me in using the phone on a >> | regular basis. >> >> The kernel packages in testing repository have the workaround: >> >> http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/om-gta02/ > > ok, thanks for the link but that is a list of packages. how do i get > a phone with that on it? if i install om2008.9, does that get me > there? do i need to opkg update/upgrade? do i need to modify my opk > config first? if so, how? > > as i said above, i'm content to own a "brick" due to the fact that i > want to support this effort but i'd still rather have a working phone; > however, i just can't seem to get there. things are just too > splintered. i can't figure out what bits to put together in order to > get a working phone with my particular annoyance fixed. > > thanks, > > -peter > -- Peter Abplanalp _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community