Proposal to send GSM sysfs patches on stable

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Mon Mar 2 19:05:40 CET 2009


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> writes:
|> | Andy Green wrote (ao):
|> |> Otherwise, they will simply propose people keep using U-Boot and
not Qi
|> |> as their "fix". To the extent we pull some extra current until GSM is
|> |> turned on, Qi is then compatible with old and new kernels. So it's the
|> |> best path right now AFAICT.
|> |
|> | Would it be too inconvenient to have a 'correct' Qi and a
|> | 'backwards compatible' Qi?
|>
|> It's not inconvenient if it can choose what to do at runtime, based on a
|> sign from the U-Boot header that the kernel it's going to run can cope
|> with the right thing.
|
| Not compatible with zImage btw.
|
| Andy, i'm sad to see how you want to spend time to introduce ugliness
| that no distro maintainer seem to want.

Ah you poor sausage :-)  Come and have a hug.

- -Andy
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