Openmoko to shift to 2.6.27 kernel ?

Cédric Berger cedric.berger74 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 10:04:32 CEST 2008


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:34, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:

> What's planned for partition selection is you will in future be able to
> press AUX while Qi is pulling in the kernel it selected to abort the
> load and move to next usable partition, so I think multiboot will work
> out fine if you can remember which "n'th" rootfs it is you want...
> hopefully only a problem for people with >2.
>
But in this case will you have visual feedback on this partition switch ?

For more complex multi-boots, could the solution be a partition
booting a simple kernel and show a multi-boot screen, from were you
can ask Qi to re-boot on a given other partition ? (or even simply
continue with already loaded kernel if wanted)




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