[Gta04-owner] QtMoko v42

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 26.03.2012 um 17:37 schrieb Radek Polak:

> On Monday 26 March 2012 17:28:47 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
>> Cool. Is the boot menu always visible or can it be skipped to boot some
>> choosen default?
> 
> Right now it just waits for touch, but i will add some sort of skip for sure. 
> I am just thinking what would be best. Maybe 10s timeout and then boot from SD 
> card?

Hm. Extends the boot-time by 10 seconds. I would check for the USER/AUX-button.

And, I would like to have it configurable. Boot from NAND or SD. Maybe from NAND
if no SD is installed.

>> This may allow to simplify the boot.scr so that it removes the u-boot menu.
>> Let me some time to experiment with it - maybe it can also be used for
>> the 2.6.32 kernel and Debian/LXDE so that we have a unique boot method
>> that we can pre-install on the devices.
> 
> It should be as simple as:
> 
> 	cd linux-2.6
> 	git clone git://github.com/radekp/gta04-init.git
> 
> edit .config and set:
> 
> 	CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="gta04-init/files.txt"

I will try.

> 
> Btw i forgot that the bootmenu by default expects the rootfs partition to be 
> ext4. But if it fails to mount it also tries ext3 and btrfs. I am using ext4 

> for last few days and it works good, so i think ext4 is now good default.


Hm. How can we store an ext4 in NAND if no SD is installed?