Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk> writes: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:36:43AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Torfinn Ingolfsen <tin...@gmail.com> writes: >> > Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or >> > it will fade away >> >> I really can't understand the desire to multi-boot. > > What does it matter if you understand anybody elses desire to multi-boot > or not?
Probably i will want to multiboot myself so much that i'll finally prepare a minimal initramfs to allow that. And in fact if anybody of those talking about bootmenu, multiboot and such really needed it he would have done it himself long time ago. I bet trying and tweaking all distros including Qtopia, Qtmoko, Android, H:1 etc etc took them 10x time required to build a minimal bootmenu. > But let me give you a few uses anyway: > 1) A backup installation in case you break your normal one. Hm, i have my "normal" one on uSD and in case i screw something up i just boot pre-installed 2007 from NAND by pressing AUX button at the right time (and yes, i can't manage it with 100% success rate but taking out the battery and trying again is not a big deal). > 2) Regression testing. I have an unmodified andy-tracking kernel installed > in addition to the one I'm hacking on and normally use. So if something > is broken I can check if it was broken before I started hacking too. And > btw, Qi doesn't let me select between multiple kernels for the same > rootfs, does it? Well, i just copy every kernel i need to /boot and then make uImage-GTA02 symlink point to the one i want to test. >> And btw the recent >> poll proved that most users use Qi IIRC. A clear evidence it's already >> usable for them. > > There are more iPhone users than Freerunner users. What was your point > again? Someone said that Qi is unusable by "normal" users. I wanted to prove it wrong. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
