Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Sat Sep 26 10:08:58 CEST 2009


On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 09:06 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Am 25.09.2009 um 21:27 schrieb Torfinn Ingolfsen:
> 
> >
> > To a user, it might look like this:
> > - U-boot wasn't working correctly with newer (bigger) kernels, so  
> > the developer(s) abandoned it
> > - instead they created Qi to be newer, better, faster and so on
> > - Qi isn't living up to promises for users
> >
> > I'm not saying that such a view is correct, but that is how it can  
> > look like from a users view.
> 
> What I wonder is why nobody did fix u-boot if it had problems with  
> bigger kernels.
> And adding stateless boot from the rootfs would be nice to have in u- 
> boot as well (for other hardware that uses u-boot).
> 
> When looking into the most recent official u-boot sources I was  
> disappointed to find essentially nothing from OM. Other open hardware  
> projects like OpenPandora simply use mainstream u-boot.
> 
> Maybe, the better path would have been to integrate more OM-u-boot  
> back into official u-boot and work on the general limitations instead  
> of starting a new project (Qi).
> 
> But you can only influence the future but never change the history...
> 
> -- hns
> 

u-boot can still work with bigger kernels - its part of the environment
setup.  There are instructions on the wiki somewhere.

Ive just gone back to u-boot from Qi - cant stand the WSODS which only
occur with Qi for me - makes the phone unusable as it usually does it on
an incoming call.

BillK





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