qtmoko v35

[Radek Polak]

On Saturday 09 April 2011 18:27:51 Jens Seidel wrote:

> My observations:
>   * SMS are recieved after reboot only (wasn't this fixed long time
>     ago?)

I have fixed this bug long time ago. But maybe there is another one with same 
symptoms.

>   * Imported SMS from the SIM card are put into Inbox, even SMS I sent
>     (expected them in "Sent"). I also cannot move them manually.

These problems can be hopefully fixed when we can use FSO. It would be nice if 
someone could fix this also in qtopiacomm.

>   * As usual it is not possible to write SMS with the integrated
>     keyboard as it misses many characters (non-English locale).
>     I prepared months ago an ugly patch for this but could never test it
>     as I always fail to compile QtMoko (configure requires days!!!!,
>     some stuff (such as Qt) is build without need, ...). Maybe it's now
>     easier using the Debian packages but I really doubt that I will try
>     it again, maybe with the new GTA04.

I am quite sure some people had luck and compiled it. I think best way is 
according to this:

https://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/README

I can cross compile or even compile natively.

> My last QtMoko installation died some days after the installation (v31
> or v32) with an ubifs related error. Is there anything known about this
> or should I expect it again?

We had problems with ubifs too. Gennady talked to ubifs devs and they would 
like to see the kernel message and nandump so they could try too look into it. 

It seems that ubifs is not as stable as jffs2 which was 100% perfect. Only 
problem is that jffs2 cant do mmap and apt-get does not work without mmap. 

Jffs2 will never do mmap (according to the main devel it's a lot of complex 
work because of compression) so we have these options now:

* live with bugged ubifs
* patch apt-get so that it works without mmap
* use the old trick with /var/cache/apt on tmpfs, but this has problems with 
limited memory and bigger upates/upgrades might not work
* use some other flash filesystem - yaffs seems but does not support compression, 
i havent looked at logfs yet

So any suggestions?

Regards

Radek