Qi for S3C2410

Micael Henriksson micael.h at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 18:57:17 CET 2008


> | The things I tent to change is loglevel, different built-in module
> | debug options and in rare cases the console to tty0.
>
> Good this is really the debug info during "trouble" case then, or
> development / debugging.  The first one we can likely incorporate into
> Qi directly one way or the other and the second one the best answer is
> probably this commandline-appending file from the rootfs but really it's
> rare it is needed.

Yes, the feature would be 99.99% of the times only for debugging.


.....
> The hidden problem with this is that /lib/modules in the rootfs-es will
> not automatically match the kernel in p1.  For that reason separate
> kernel part needed by DFU for example is not good: better to have the
> kernel embedded into the rootfs and update it inside the rootfs
> filesystem by package, even though you are doing that per-rootfs.
>
> | Then it would be nice to be able to switch which rootfs to use by just
> | updating a file in p1.
>
> This can also be done without creating a new settings file by marking
> partition table entries as bootable DOS-style, or using the skip
> partition UI button.

Of course. This would be the remaining 0.01% where I want to do
something abnormal and know what I'm doing (abusing the debug
feature).

/Micael



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