[Gta04-owner] QtMoko v42

[Christoph Mair]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:32:18 +0200
> Christoph Mair <christoph.mair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
>> <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Am 26.03.2012 um 17:11 schrieb Radek Polak:
>> >> All GTA04 distros are welcome to use this initramfs too. I can post a video
>> >> how it works later...
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> You could even try to load the 2.6.32 kernel (or any other) using kexec.
>>
> Hmm, kexec is somewhat experimental, isn't it?

Well, yes. But I tried it a few times on my IGEP board which uses the
same OMAP SoC and it worked fine.
But I have to admit that I did boot only very similar kernels.

> But for testing newer kernel you won't notice if the new kernel does
> not initialize something because the first kernel does.
> Then I would try to boot a minimalized kernel for the boot menu and load
> a second one after that.

I would use it to boot SHR or Android from the QtMoko bootmenu. But of
course all this can also be done within u-boot.

> But that gives extra seconds during boot. Having too many stuff in uboot is
> on the other way also not good. Maybe load boot menu on aux button and
> boot into some default setup if it is not pressed.

ACK.

Regards,
  Christoph