[PATCH 0/4] Qi ext2 + glamo mmc efficiency improvements

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Tue Oct 28 07:39:20 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| * Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> [081028 07:12]:
|> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
|> | * Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> [081027 11:17]:
|> |> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
|> |> | Sven 'sleipnir' Rebhan wrote:
|> |> |> 2008/10/26 Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com>:
|> |> |>> The bug in the ext2 parser caused hundreds of repeated reads to
|> the same
|> |> |>> block on SD Card.
|> |> |> Is there a plan to backport this fix to u-boot?
|> |
|> |> Yes upstream U-Boot would want it too, it's still busted in there.
|> |
|> |> | Or is there an easy way to try Qi?
|> |
|> |> You can get current Qi for GTA02 here
|> |
|> |> http://people.openmoko.org/andy/qi-s3c2442-andy_8589b40295653557.udfu
|> |
|> |> Just use NOR U-Boot to DFU it into the NAND U-Boot slot... you should
|> |> find it is radically faster than U-Boot.  But you probably need a
recent
|> |> kernel to get the backlight up during boot.
|> | recent from stable branch - or does Qi need 2.6.27?
|
|> No it should work fine on recent 2.6.24 too IIRC.
| and I can flash back to u-boot if it doesn't work out, right?

Yes -- use NOR U-Boot to flash it in over DFU.

- -Andy
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