GTA01 question : what capacity of ....

[Ben Wilson]

Tilman Baumann wrote:
> Tim Niemeyer wrote:
>   
>> Hallo wim.delvaux,
>>
>> * wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com <wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com>
>> [24-04-09 04:16]:
>>     
>>> I.e. if I buy a 8GB micro SD card, would the GTA01 be able to use it ?
>>>       
>> I have never tried it, but i have heared it supports SDHC cards, but can't
>> boot it? (Booting with Uboot???/Qi???; i don't know)
>>     
>
> More or less. :)
> SDHC is no problem for Linux. But UBoot can not load a kernel from SDHC.
> The wiki has a section how to boot a rootfs from sd and use the kernel
> from internal flash.
>
> And *never ever* use Qi on GTA01. You will loose the DFU loader!
>
>   
It says this on the wiki
"Booting from SDHC requires a u-boot from 2008-07-23 or later. *But pay 
attention* : there are problems with SDHC cards at suspend time."

I got it from here
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Supported_microSD_cards

Might only apply to GTA02 though.

Ben.