Thread: N900 kernel v45, why with uboot???
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lunat is offline lunat
2010-11-16 , 09:49
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you don' t use things from devel for a productive phone... and btw shouldn't use apt from the command line and alsonot the fast application manager.

yes. but /if/ case of productive use: there my alies are with the users. if you want it for productive the users need a menu and not that boot.scr. not having it is a imo usability bug.
you will want a fallback kernel as well so that if luser installs a kernel that doesn't work at once can boot with some other working kernel he had before and that again requires a menu.
a simple thing like numbers in front of the choices and loading dependend on the number typed in could resolve this.

there are more than this bug to resolve. i am the last to say that is fit for productive and be the first to criticize it if it was labled "for productive use"...

but you are right: some take something with a huge label "BROKEN" and "not fit for productive use" and than they say: hey look, how come that we have problems with broken stuff?
sid breaks the toys: we know that. but that doesn't make the toys bad.


Originally Posted by ivyking View Post
first , I repeat.... you don't have to use u-boot , stay away from kernel packages in extras-devel .

the thread title is :
N900 kernel v45, why with uboot???

it reflects your opinion that you don't need u-boot ...

assuming you knew what you were doing , you went on and installed kernel-package from extras-devel , knowing that u-boot will be installed as you have read the change log , the title won't be "why with uboot" .

others having problems with u-boot installed the kernel-package from extras-devel without knowing the changes , well it's their fault , they have been warned before about installing software from extras-devel .
and it's not like fixing that is too hard , if you are caught in a reboot loop / kernel doesn't start , just extract the pr1.3 kernel and flash it , then install stable power-kernel version , or extract the power kernel image from .deb of stable version , and flash it , that works too .

or follow instructions by Matan
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...270#post870270

if the phone starts , but you just don't like u-boot , installing stable kernel-version will overwrite u-boot .

as posted above , u-boot is there to help you load different kernels from any where without needing to flash them .

multiboot currently wears your oneNAND by flashing new kernel every time you choose a different OS , in the future , multiboot can be used to write boot.scr for u-boot , instead of flashing .
 

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