[Debian] Benefits of Kernel on separate Partition

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Tue Oct 28 06:51:11 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Hi,
|
| On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:11:42AM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
|> Or, you can use Qi which expects to boot from partition 1 that should be
|> ext2 / 3, and have /boot/uImage.bin there.
|
| I thought the debian kernel [1] is too old for Qi, isn't it?
|
| sascha at gta02:~$ uname -r
| 2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171
|
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| Greetings,
| Sascha
|
|
| [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/linux-2.6-openmoko.git

I dunno, Qi does need the Kernel to initialize the backlight part of
PMU.  If a kernel didn't handle it for Qi, then the LCM will remain dark
even while it boots properly.

- -Andy
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