2010/6/27 Martin Jansa <[email protected]> > After hopefully lucky incident we have finally switched to new kernel. > It's based on 2.6.32.13 and has DRM/KMS enabled. > > * New images are built with kernel and all needed changes are already > included. > * Images doesn't have udevd installed by default (using devtmpfs), which > makes > it boot about twice as fast as before (less then 1 min to PIN dialog). But > it also won't mount your uSD automatically (it was blacklisted before, but > removing it from blacklist won't help now). > * Included packages contains latest stuff like xserver-1.9 (RC3), > foxtrotgps > and tangogps 0.99.4, QT 4.7.0-beta1 and QML enabled navit. > > * Distribution revision was changed in OE, this means that every package > installed from shr-unstable feeds will be upgraded during next opkg > upgrade > (so be sure that you have enough time and space in /var partition). > Consider flashing new image, it can be faster and safer in the end. > * Used GCC was upgraded from version 4.4.4 to 4.5 (svn revision 160764 from > gcc-4.5-branch, because released 4.5.0 has few issues on ARM targets). > * New GCC brings LTO optimizations, which can give us 30% speedup in some > cases, > see benchmark results [1]. > LTO is not enabled by default yet. > > * New kernel has some issues, so please try first (on another uSD > partition), > before upgrading your daily-phone-partition. > * The kernel is bigger than 2MB so if you're using u-boot, update your > environment according to wiki entry [2]. > * With slower uSD you can see unknown-block-device while booting. Flash > newer > Qi from SHR [3] it is using rootwait instead of rootdelay=1. For u-boot > increase rootdelay or use rootwait. > * Sometimes (and only on some devices) it can show all white (looks like > old > WSoD, but it's without death). Suspend/Resume should fix this. > * Vibrations are too weak. > > * See OE changelog [4] and SHR changelog [5]. > > [1]: http://sakrah.dontexist.org/node/1 > [2]: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Kernel#.22Verifying_Checksum_..._Bad_Data_CRC.22_with_U-boot > [3]: http://build.shr-project.org/shr-unstable/images/om-gta02/ > [4]: http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/log/ > [5]: http://git.shr-project.org/git/ >
Great! Thank you! - Michael Dai diamanti non nasce niente dal letame nascono i fior El diamantoj nenio naskiĝas, el sterko naskiĝas floroj. -- Fabrizio de André, ''Via del campo''
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