Thread: U-Boot for Nokia RX-51 with BootMenu (updated version 2012.10-rc3-1)
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reinob is offline reinob
2012-08-07 , 10:38
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#457
Originally Posted by Hurrian View Post
We should probably ask Pali or FMG to build a kernel-power with inline MMC and EXT4 modules. We won't be flashing it on NAND, but keeping it for u-boot to boot into. My efforts at making an initrd for Maemo aren't going anywhere.
I actually asked Pali to provide such a kernel, but apparently its size, together with U-boot (which is what I wanted) would be >2MB.

Actually my plan for last weekend was to make such a kernel myself (FBCON, MMC, EXT2/3/4 as well as removing some stuff). This "minor" issue with my hacking-N900 got in the way.

I guess I could use my spare N900 (which for now I just kept mostly unused, except for letting my little daughters play with tuxpaint -- they love stamping pinguins on the screen) for testing this new kernel (which I actually have already compiled -- but not tested yet).

BTW, making an image of both rootfs and home is nice, since you can simply use RescueOS to mount and replace all the files
Some day I'll manage to test the kernel as well as prepare the whole infrastructure[***] for making unbrickable N900s. But not this week, and not the next

[***] Including, for Maemo5, a full rewrite of /sbin/preinit, and, where necessary, every damn /etc/event.d/ script so that *nothing* can decide to "arbitrarily" reboot the N900 causing a reboot loop. The decision to reboot when "something goes wrong" was plainly wrong.

If the worst happens, preinit/whatever should just load fbcon (if not loaded or built-in) and just drop the user to a normal shell. Rebooting doesn't help anyone!
 

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