[Shr-User] New SHR-unstable images with 2.6.32 kernel

[Jakob]

On 6/27/10, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> After hopefully lucky incident we have finally switched to new kernel.
> It's based on 2.6.32.13 and has DRM/KMS enabled.
>
> * New images are built with kernel and all needed changes are already
> included.
> * Images doesn't have udevd installed by default (using devtmpfs), which
> makes
>   it boot about twice as fast as before (less then 1 min to PIN dialog). But
>   it also won't mount your uSD automatically (it was blacklisted before, but
>   removing it from blacklist won't help now).
> * Included packages contains latest stuff like xserver-1.9 (RC3), foxtrotgps
>   and tangogps 0.99.4, QT 4.7.0-beta1 and QML enabled navit.
>
> * Distribution revision was changed in OE, this means that every package
>   installed from shr-unstable feeds will be upgraded during next opkg
> upgrade
>   (so be sure that you have enough time and space in /var partition).
>   Consider flashing new image, it can be faster and safer in the end.
> * Used GCC was upgraded from version 4.4.4 to 4.5 (svn revision 160764 from
>   gcc-4.5-branch, because released 4.5.0 has few issues on ARM targets).
> * New GCC brings LTO optimizations, which can give us 30% speedup in some
> cases,
>   see benchmark results [1].
>   LTO is not enabled by default yet.
>
> * New kernel has some issues, so please try first (on another uSD
> partition),
>   before upgrading your daily-phone-partition.
> * The kernel is bigger than 2MB so if you're using u-boot, update your
>   environment according to wiki entry [2].
> * With slower uSD you can see unknown-block-device while booting. Flash
> newer
>   Qi from SHR [3] it is using rootwait instead of rootdelay=1. For u-boot
>   increase rootdelay or use rootwait.
> * Sometimes (and only on some devices) it can show all white (looks like old
>   WSoD, but it's without death). Suspend/Resume should fix this.
> * Vibrations are too weak.
>
> * See OE changelog [4] and SHR changelog [5].
>
> [1]: http://sakrah.dontexist.org/node/1
> [2]:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Kernel#.22Verifying_Checksum_..._Bad_Data_CRC.22_with_U-boot
> [3]: http://build.shr-project.org/shr-unstable/images/om-gta02/
> [4]: http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/log/
> [5]: http://git.shr-project.org/git/
>
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Awesome speed :)
Thanks for all your hard work!