[Gta04-owner] QtMoko v49 - Look and feel

[Sven Dyroff]

Hello Nikolaus,

>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to have two different penguin pictures? That 
means
>> in addition to "splash.rgb16z" we could have a "splash.rgb16z.flash". 
Bootloader
>> would then use version "splash.rgb16z.flash" in order to flash it to 
NAND and by
>> the way give it the name "splash.rgb16z" there. Then also dummies like 
me would
>> see at one glance what's going on, when the penguin for example wears a 
shirt
>> with writing "NAND" or "SD" on it or something like that. 
>
> Unfortunately it is already quite a hack to have two different 
bitmaps... U-Boot can't
> do any image processing or GUI. So the trick is simply to copy a block 
of bytes from
> NAND to RAM, unzip and set the framebuffer base address to the RAM 
address.

But I can't believe that in case when booting from SD card, that then 
you'll first copy from SD to NAND before copying from NAND to RAM. So I 
still suggest:

a) In case you'll boot from SD card and see that you want to flash the 
bootloader, copy image "splash.rgb16z.flash" instead of "splash.rgb16z" 
from SD to NAND while displaying dark red and empty screen.

b) In case you'll  boot from SD card and see that you will not flash the 
bootloader, copy image "splash.rgb16z" from SD to RAM and display this.

c) In case you'll boot from NAND, you don't have any other chance than 
displaying image "splash.rgb16z.flash" from NAND.

> This is why I recommend to have a separate SD card for upgrading the 
bootloader. Then you will know...

No, in case bootloader version of SD card and NAND are identical, I will 
not know if I did something little wrong with formatting the SD card or 
copying MLO and thus getting booted from NAND instead of SD. But I want to 
know.

>> I can do the rebooting as often as I want to. The new bootloader will 
never recognize
>> that it already has flashed itself. Later on I could even see this 
behaviour after a proper
>> shutdown of QtMoko and soft reboot. 
>
> Hm. This may be an issue by up- and downgrading between different 
bootloaders. Please
> insert the new-bootloader-SD and boot with AUX button pressed.

OK, I'll try what happens.

Best regards
   Sven


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