[Gta04-owner] QtMoko v44

[Radek Polak]

On Sunday 22 April 2012 19:30:02 Martin Jansa wrote:

> There is small issue with ext4, README at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/GTA04/
> suggests to use ext4 for rootfs, but if you create ext4 partition with
> e.g. extents, then booting will fail like this:
> EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p2): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported
> optional features (240)

Do you have ext4 compiled in your kernel? You must select Y there.

> because boot.scr as well as default CMDLINE in kernel is passing
> "rootfstype=ext3", I've changed defconfig in SHR and will send patch for
> boot.scr.

When using gta04-init as initramfs the rootfs and rootfstypes are ignored. 
Instead we mount root either according to bootdev file or if the file does not 
exist by clicking on icon.

> so now we have rootfstype=ext4,ubifs,jffs2,btrfs in defconfig
> http://git.shr-project.org/git/?p=meta-smartphone.git;a=commit;h=c09e13fa3b
> ec89fb51d3f8d5f6d7d8d6f5dbfcde and
> setenv mmcrootfstype 'ext4,ext3,btrfs rootwait'
> in boot.scr
> 
> And also uImage should be included in qtmoko-fat-v44.tar.gz because
> extload cannot read ext4 partition with rootfs.

Good point, i have updated it and it has uImage now.

> I've added gta04-init to SHR kernel to resolve it
> http://git.shr-project.org/git/?p=meta-smartphone.git;a=commit;h=fac33bd0c4
> ca2729aae23bcd106793489da26835 but it needs a bit more work, as now it
> shows fb ui from initramfs and doesn't switch to xserver.

Nice, btw is there already SHR tarball which i could try?

Regards

Radek