GTA01 question : what capacity of ....

[Tilman Baumann]

Ben Wilson wrote:
> Tilman Baumann wrote:
>> Tim Niemeyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hallo wim.delvaux,
>>>
>>> * wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com <wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com>
>>> [24-04-09 04:16]:
>>>
>>>> I.e. if I buy a 8GB micro SD card, would the GTA01 be able to use it ?
>>>>
>>> I have never tried it, but i have heared it supports SDHC cards, but
>>> can't
>>> boot it? (Booting with Uboot???/Qi???; i don't know)
>>>
>>
>> More or less. :)
>> SDHC is no problem for Linux. But UBoot can not load a kernel from SDHC.
>> The wiki has a section how to boot a rootfs from sd and use the kernel
>> from internal flash.
>>
>> And *never ever* use Qi on GTA01. You will loose the DFU loader!
>>
>>
> It says this on the wiki
> "Booting from SDHC requires a u-boot from 2008-07-23 or later. *But pay
> attention* : there are problems with SDHC cards at suspend time."

This is GTA02

> I got it from here
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Supported_microSD_cards
>
> Might only apply to GTA02 though.

It does. Unfortunately the ancient knowledge of GTA01 users degenerates in
the wiki. Some GTA02 only topics are not marked as such.

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 Tilman Baumann