I've always been amazed at my device instability, and always wondered how you guys had the patience to put up with it. WIth the new kernel however for the first time the device is rock solid ( including gphoto2, I've managed to get it to work in USB host mode, it needs manually disabling g_file_storage and manually mounting swap !), so this is why I'm digging deeper.

The 'good' kernel version string is:
Linux version 2.6.16.27-omap1 (bifh1@doree) (gcc version 3.4.2 (release) (CodeSourcery ARM Q3D 2004)) #1 PREEMPT Tue Sep 19 16:46:58 EEST 2006

I'm using gcc version 3.4.4 (release) (CodeSourcery ARM 2005q3-2), which is the standard gcc in the SDK; I'm gonna test your binary kernel and see how stable it is. If it's stable, should we suspect a gcc 3.4.4 bug ?

Later EDIT: No crashes in the few minutes I've been testing the your kernel; with old kernels I usually saw a crash in this timeframe. So it appears the gcc version matters, at least for my device... Do you have a link to where I can download the version you used for this binary ? I'm also gonna build a 4.1 gcc for armel just to give it a test.