On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
> there's no incentive i can see to stay with uboot
You probably don't have 4 different distros on you SD then ;-)
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On Tuesday 02 June 2009 13:04:13 Al Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
> > there's no incentive i can see to stay with uboot
>
> You probably don't have 4 different distros on you SD then ;-)
+1 ;)
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2009/6/2 Al Johnson :
> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
>> there's no incentive i can see to stay with uboot
>
> You probably don't have 4 different distros on your SD then ;-)
no, i don't.
but it doesn't look like it will be long before qi can do multi-boot
http://wiki.openmoko.org
2009/6/2 Robin Paulson :
> 2009/6/2 Al Johnson :
>> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
>>> there's no incentive i can see to stay with uboot
>>
>> You probably don't have 4 different distros on your SD then ;-)
>
> no, i don't.
>
> but it doesn't look like it will be long before qi can do
2009/6/2 Robin Paulson :
> 2009/6/2 Al Johnson :
>> On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
>>> there's no incentive i can see to stay with uboot
>>
>> You probably don't have 4 different distros on your SD then ;-)
>
> no, i don't.
>
> but it doesn't look like it will be long before qi can do
The major reason for Qi's existence is maintainability. U-Boot has a
problem with all drivers for different HW being copied from the kernel
tree. When the kernel is updated/patched, the fixes don't
automagically appear in U-Boot.
Qi instead try to do as little as possible to be HW independant. Then
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
> 2009/6/2 Al Johnson :
> > On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
> >> there's no incentive i can see to stay with uboot
> >
> > You probably don't have 4 different distros on your SD then ;-)
>
> no, i don't.
>
> but it doesn't look like it will
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
> > Where are the apps for this distribution?
>
> there are very few apps installed by default on om2009. you will need
> to use opkg to install more, and keep everything up to date. best to
> do this over ssh, form your desktop/laptop
> bear in mind, t
2009/6/3 Anthony Winter :
> Is there any obvious way of telling what will and what won't run on om2009?
try installing it from the opkg.org repos. if it's been packaged
correctly, and has it's dependencies listed, it will refuse to install
and thrown up errors. in that case, you can either force i
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
>
> python is installed by default on om2009, so run it exactly as you
> would a python programme on your desktop - there really are no
> important difference between that and your neo. so, copy it to
> somewhere on the neo (/usr/bin might be good) and the
2009/6/3 Anthony Winter :
> OK, good start. But - assuming that it does run from a command line (and I
> still haven't found a terminal yet, but there must be one somewhere), what
> are the steps in getting it run by 'clicking' on an icon, in paroli/illume?
> That's the missing bit...
i assumed yo
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
> 2009/6/3 Anthony Winter :
> > OK, good start. But - assuming that it does run from a command line (and I
> > still haven't found a terminal yet, but there must be one somewhere), what
> > are the steps in getting it run by 'clicking' on an icon, in
parol
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