From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NWb3x-0008DE-IO for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:45:32 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NWb1n-0003p2-TY for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:43:15 +0100 Received: from p5b3b24db.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.59.36.219]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:43:15 +0100 Received: from no2spam by p5b3b24db.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:43:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Rolf Leggewie Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:42:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b3b24db.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: [RFC] Zaurus: make updater.sh obsolete for poodle, clamshells and tosa X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:45:32 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrea Adami wrote: > Well, there are very good reasons to make this now obsolete: > - we can flash from console (2.6 userspace) > - we have a different image-layout (kernel in /boot), thus we can boot > from every hd partition > - we can create jffs2 images (see Narcissus) and flash these from > console, without striping the legacy headers. We can even have 2 > images in nand Great. Would be nice to see this documented somewhere in the wiki in a language that mere humans understand. I'll volunteer as tester. I think I'm stupid enough to qualify ;-)