[Gta04-owner] QtMoko v42

[Radek Polak]

On Monday 26 March 2012 22:05:15 Andreas Kemnade wrote:

> > You could even try to load the 2.6.32 kernel (or any other) using kexec.
> 
> Hmm, kexec is somewhat experimental, isn't it?
> But for testing newer kernel you won't notice if the new kernel does
> not initialize something because the first kernel does.

IIRC kexec needs work on kernel size, it does not work out-of-the-box. E.g. on 
N900 with kexec booted kernel some drivers were not working as expected.

But since gta04-init is bootable, you can easily do:

	cp /fat/kernel-i-want-to-try.uImage /fat/uImage
	echo "sd" > /fat/gta04-init/bootdev
	reboot

U-boot will then boot your kernel. The second line is new feature of gta04-
init. When it finds the file it wont show bootmenu and boots straight from SD or 
NAND (echo "nand" > /fat/gta04-init/bootdev).

Regards

Radek