qtmoko on nand - qi or u-boot?

2010-05-24 Thread Corey

Hello!

The Qi page on the wiki (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi) says:

"actively developed (u-boot on GTA02 is deprecated)"


But the qtmoko installation page (http://qtmoko.org/wiki/Installation) says:

"Method 1: Installing on NAND
[...]
If you flash it you also need U-boot which is flashed with this command"


So, is it not possible to install qtmoko to nand using qi instead of u-boot?



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Re: qtmoko on nand - qi or u-boot?

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Corey  writes:
> So, is it not possible to install qtmoko to nand using qi instead of
> u-boot?

Qi doesn't allow to "install" (read "flash to NAND) anything because
it doesn't support DFU. But you always have an option of booting NOR
u-boot to flash whatever you need.

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Re: qtmoko on nand - qi or u-boot?

2010-05-24 Thread Corey
On Monday 24 May 2010 1:10:21 Paul Fertser wrote:
> Corey  writes:
> > So, is it not possible to install qtmoko to nand using qi instead of
> > u-boot?
> 
> Qi doesn't allow to "install" (read "flash to NAND) anything because
> it doesn't support DFU. But you always have an option of booting NOR
> u-boot to flash whatever you need.
>

A friend of mine lent me his freerunner to toy around with, so I'm just
now acclimating myself to the phone - any docs online that compare
the pros/cons between installing/flashing a distribution on nand vs.
microSD card?


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Re: qtmoko on nand - qi or u-boot?

2010-05-24 Thread Radek Polak
On Monday 24 May 2010 10:33:28 Corey wrote:

> A friend of mine lent me his freerunner to toy around with, so I'm just
> now acclimating myself to the phone - any docs online that compare
> the pros/cons between installing/flashing a distribution on nand vs.
> microSD card?

I would recommend to have daily phone on NAND. It behaves much better when you 
improperly shutdown the phone (e.g.  pull off battery).

On SD card you have most often ext2/ext3 which need running fsck and i have 
experienced corrupted files. In NAND there is jffs2 - i never experienced it.

SD card has the capacity advantage. It's good if you compile on freerunner or 
install some big apps.

I use Qi for booting from SD card and u-boot for booting from NAND because 
it's comfortable (POWER for SD card, POWER+AUX for NAND) and you can edit 
/boot/append-GTA02 boot params for SD card easily.

Regards

Radek

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