[Gta04-owner] NAND behavior while flashing qtmoko

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:20:01 +0200
Radek Polak <psonek2 at seznam.cz> wrote:

> On Sunday 25 March 2012 17:12:21 Michele Brocco wrote:
> 
> > just want to report some experiences while flashing qtmoko to NAND:
> > 
> > - first, why has the qtmoko kernel a hardcoded path for the rootfs?
> > Why doesn't it get the parameters from u-boot?
> 
> It's quite hard to troubleshoot problems if everyone used different boot 
> params. I am using the same boot cmdline as Neil Brown's kernel. I am not 
> kernel developer and i believe that he has got them right.
> 
But why are you not using
CONFIG_CMDLINE_EXTEND=y

Then you can choose to provide only the rootfs via uboot and not
other complicated stuff. I do not know why it makes troubleshoot
problems significant harder if the user can choose the rootfs partition.
On desktops that does not cause problems. On GTA02 you could choose
your rootfs from the bootloader. 
But I also doubt that the commandline is a good place for so many configurations
for regular use.

With that setting we can start about thinking about a mechanism to
configure the boot loader from distro scripts.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade
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