Post- GTA02

Antoine Reid antoine.reid at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 18:27:15 CET 2008


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:

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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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> Hi -
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> > I may be mistaken here but I believe up to and including GTA02, it is
> > possible to configure the device to boot and operate from the built-in
> > storage (NAND?) memory.  I understand it is currently possible to umount
>
> Yes it is true.
>
> > the SD card and eject it while the device is running.  I *really* like
> > this flexibility, let's try not to lose it!
>
> That is a bit tougher since it physically behind the battery on GTA02,
> and you have to umount before eject, plus we lack an eject notification
> signal on GTA02, but it is theoretically true if you power from USB and
> generated an eject notification by hand, for example.
>

Oh yes this is true, on GTA0[12], the SD card sits behind the battery.. I
had forgotten that.

> If you guys consider moving the rootfs to an SD medium, then we lose
> this possibility, unless there would be two SD slots.  I think it would

Yes the 6400 has enough SD controllers to manage two slots it seems.
>

OK then I guess my *wish* would be to keep the existing SD slot behind the
battery the way it is, and use it for rootfs.  Then, add an extra SDIO slot
but this one accessible from outside without removing the cover, if
possible.


> > I would *definitely* like this kind of setup.. Maybe keep the NAND for a
> > recovery kernel or not use it properly, and use two SD slots, one for
> > the rootfs and another one for removable storage (think music, gps maps,
> > pictures, etc).
> >
> > I'm not sure if I represent the typical user though :)
>
> I agree that seems a nice way.
>
> - -Andy
>




Thanks!
Antoine

PS: I just realized I didn't CC the list on my first reply... sorry.

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Antoine Reid
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