[ANNOUNCE] qi-bootmenu-0.2

[giacomo 'giotti' mariani]

> Hi,
>
> I finally had some time to hack on qi-bootmenu the result is
> a new 0.2 release 
>
>  http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/qi-bootmenu/
>
> with the following changes:
>
>  - based on 2.6.34 this should hopefully fix some sd card
>    related problems
>
>  - static NAND boot option in the menu, the NAND partition
>    is only mounted upon selection so there is no delay for
>    sd based boots.
>
>    To make NAND booting work out of the box it would be nice
>    if the distros (I tried SHR and QtMoko) could add their
>    kernels to the jffs2 images too.
>
>    At the moment you have to ssh into the device mount the
>    NAND partition, download their kernel and put it at the
>    right place. Something along the lines of: 
>
>     ssh root@$FREERUNNER # the password is empty
>     mkdir /mnt/mtdblock6
>     mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock6 /mnt/mtdblock6
>     mkdir /mnt/mtdblock6/boot && cd /mnt/mtdblock6/boot
>     wget $KERNEL
>     mv $KERNEL uImage-GTA02.bin
>
>    Bonus points if the distros would place a bootlogo.png
>    alongside the kernel (current preferred dimension is
>    100x80)
>
>  - visual feedback upon boot selection. There seems to be
>    a issue which ocassionally garbles parts of the 
>    font/text but I think it's better than before.
>
>  - userspace updated to latest versions including EFL 1.0
>    beta release
>
>  - integration of a cross toolchain into the build scripts.
>    this should make rebuilding everything a matter of
>    executing one shell script. Well at least in theory...
>
> Kernel and Qi ready to flash to your Freerunner can be found at:
>
>  http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/qi-bootmenu/uImage-GTA02-bootmenu-0.2.bin
>  http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/qi-bootmenu/qi-s3c2442-bootmenu-0.1.udfu
>
> If you flash the above Qi version, pressing AUX should boot from
> NAND and thus present the bootmenu independently of the content
> of your sd card. If you don't want to use my patched Qi then
> get it to boot from NAND in some other way, for example by putting
> noboot-GTA02 files into your sd partitions. Let me know how it
> works for you.
>
> The build scripts, in case anyone wants to rebuild the whole
> thing, can be found at:
>
>  http://repo.or.cz/w/qi-bootmenu-system.git/snapshot/7c3a92f22e9498198212e4682b2fe078a676f1b5.tar.gz
>
> download and extract the tarball then run ./build.sh this will 
> download everything that is needed and then build the kernel +
> initramfs. See the README file for further information.
>
> What remains to be done is
>
>  - add ubifs support
>
>  - read partition labels? or some other way to display custom
>    text in the menu
>
>  - gta01 support, this basically means kernel support in >= 2.6.34
>    the kernel maximum size of 2MB including the initramfs
>    should be doable
>
>  - ...
>
> Patches welcome.
>
> Have fun,
> Marc
>
>   
Thanks.
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