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

[William Kenworthy]

Feedback on Qi,

boot is faster - when it works :)

If I hold the button on until the screen backlight comes on, it will
sometimes boot (~1 out of 3) - otherwise the screen gives a brief flash
and shuts down - sometimes while still holding the powerbutton in.

Needs a bootsplash or something on the screen so you can see its started
up - the backlight cant be seen in sunlight for instance.  I realise it
probably doesnt have one for speed, so maybe echo some dots or anything
to show somethings happened/happening

Does Qi have the same flat-battery recovery abilities as the latest
u-boot?

BillK

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:13 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
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> | * 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.
> 
> - -Andy
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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