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 +0000, 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No, except that it is not really "u-boot" but a 2 years old fork that is now no longer maintained.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