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Working fine with NAT Exfat kernel with ubiboot
and can optimizer include it?
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Well I'd say nothing can go wrong but usually just saying it is prone to trigger the impossible...
But really, nothing should go wrong.

And all other kernels boot correctly, right?

Are you sure you do not have something non-standard I might have overlooked, I do remember you had some extra partitioning there, maybe something else too?
Which toolchain do you build with?

I saw this in the kernel-plus topic:
The kernel builds properly when using Sabermod's Linaro GCC 4.8 cross-compile toolchain for ARM EABI.

It doesn't boot, though.

NON-Linaro information:

I've recently picked up a spare N9 (smashed screen, though) hwrev 1607, and K+ boots just as often as Harmattan on it.

On hwrev 1507, it just hangs at kexec. Finicky.

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Originally Posted by jackburton View Post
Which toolchain do you build with?

I saw this in the kernel-plus topic:
The kernel builds properly when using Sabermod's Linaro GCC 4.8 cross-compile toolchain for ARM EABI.
When I compile ubiboot kernels I am using the Linaro 4.6.3 arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc compiler. However, Harmattan kernels I build in the traditional scratchbox environment;
[sbox-HARMATTAN_ARMEL: /usr/src/kernel-2.6.32_plus_nat_extfat] > gcc --version
sbox-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc ('cs2009q3-hard-67-sb16') 4.4.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[sbox-HARMATTAN_ARMEL: /usr/src/kernel-2.6.32_plus_nat_extfat] >



Originally Posted by jackburton View Post
I've recently picked up a spare N9 (smashed screen, though) hwrev 1607, and K+ boots just as often as Harmattan on it.

On hwrev 1507, it just hangs at kexec. Finicky.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...4&postcount=77
Well, I have found out th hard way that HWREV really makes the difference. Some devices take almost anything, like my trusty 1501, and some are so-so, and need to boot several times just to get a kernel running (if even then...?)
 

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Mine is 1601 (normally boots everything...).

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Originally Posted by jackburton View Post
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On hwrev 1507, it just hangs at kexec. Finicky.
So, I am not alone (at least ).
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Why on earth are some revs so picky, can that be overcome eventually?
 
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Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
Why on earth are some revs so picky, can that be overcome eventually?
Well I don't know that for sure, if I did it wouldn't be such a problem any longer, would it?

The problems are all with getting Harmattan starting up correctlly. With Nitdroid or Nemo it's trivial, those can run on any HWREV with no problem whatsoever. Harmattan is exceedingly picky, bordering on fragile on how it starts up...

What I suspect is different HWREV boards have a bit different components/chipset/firmware and of course when Nokia made it they tested/debugged all with their official kernel and tuned the bootchain accordingly in each PR release.
I have no luxury like this, with my own device (rev.1501) I can do what I can to tune it but support on other HWREVs is not so easy.
 

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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Well I don't know that for sure, if I did it wouldn't be such a problem any longer, would it?
True, it was a rhetorical Qn more than anything else
 

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So strange. I am using kernel-plus with nat binary download. On first flash, everything was fine. Later, it seemed my bluetooth tethering just wouldn't work (couldn't connect second device). I rebooted. Then it went into a reboot loop. I was freaked out. Then I just let it sit for a minute and eventually it did boot. I'm still running it now. However I experience issues with reboots. Not sure if the plus patches have really bought me anything here other than more random instability.

Anyone care to comment regarding stability?

I could compile plus myself on device and see if that somehow makes a difference.
 

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Originally Posted by jackburton View Post
Not sure if the plus patches have really bought me anything here other than more random instability.

Anyone care to comment regarding stability?
I have been running on the plus kernel since I compiled it, something like 2 weeks ago and then with the extfat-patched kernel for about a week or so.
Not once have I encountered any random instability. Granted, I do not overclock my device and have only fairly light tweaks on it, just basic Open Mode stuff.
 

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@juiceme have you test the exfat yet?
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