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the trouble is: uboot is one of the widest used and one of the best an most flexible bootloaders available. it is one of the best if not the best bootloader currently available for embedded devices. if you look wich devices all run with uboot, maybe some you use, like routers or other phones, without you knowing it, then you might understand what class of bootloader it is. it is fit for almost everything you might want from a bootloader. loads from where you want, has scripting capabilities as well as support for customized binaries to load and run. is capable of a lot more than grub for instance btw. there are other good bootloaders but uboot is among the best.
if you don't believe me you might belive wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot

uboot realy is fine. the real problem is the things around it and that it is patched with a hack(like it though, nice work) to make it work and an environment that does everything to break it. it is a fine hack but uboot is not fit for productive use in maemo with that alone as it is not userfailsave.
but i guess thats why it is in extras-devel. think thats where it belongs.

Originally Posted by N900@900MHz View Post
Hello,

I'm using titans Kernels with joy, i like it until now.....
I was using til v42 with a lot of happynis, espaccially the overclock part. I tried v45 but then i have this pinguin (that's OK), and this Uboot thing. I never used any other kernel that the stock one. But with v45 it's stopt during boot. Somehow it's regonizing a boot part on the smmc sd card. I have to enter run noloboot, than it runs fine. Without a sd card inserted also no problems.

BUT why put in the uboot thing??? Many people have trouble with this,reading the many post on the forum.
I don't like this uboot, because, at reboot, the unit is not fully booted at once, i have put run noloboot within 3 sec....

How many people are really using this uboot/multiboot option??? Most of the users want a stable custum kernel, with overclock option, because the stock nokia's one is very bad,full of bugs,laggy and it can't even record video's without stuttering...

Titan has provided a good kernel v42, that's included the PR1.3 fixes. I'am happy with this one. USB mode support is a nice addon, for the newer versions. I liked that one...

So my suggestion is, remove that uboot crap, if some users want to use that, there is a separate program/download install for.

Stick to optify the stock kernel,with add some usefull extra's such as overclock option.
Maybe titan can look at matan's hildon-desktop for reduce cpu usage in idle mode????

Nokia provide us a great device/hardware, but lacks in the software.

Al that we want is a stable, fast, bug free device!

So far i'm happy with titans kernel v42

Last edited by lunat; 2010-11-15 at 10:56.