NAND Testing - 05-25 Update: New LK, Recovery.img, Kernel Updates through Recovery

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

Welcome back, and just a heads up, I've been tweaking with a few things. After talking with stintebd a bit, there were a few things we were missing from rootfs, and I moved thing around a little bit. I'll be uploading a new full package within a couple of hours for people to mess around with. I'll also post the list of changes that I made

Sounds good .. lets see what u got. I talked to stine on fri but he had nothing to say. I'm really drifting away from the kernel development so i need to tend to it right away. I'll try to commit the KB detection tonight but i'll prob wait until i see your changes.

I'm thinking of commiting the sysinit.rc to a new branch since that is pretty much where all the android work happens.

[natemcnutty]

Originally Posted by [ACL]

Sounds good .. lets see what u got. I talked to stine on fri but he had nothing to say. I'm really drifting away from the kernel development so i need to tend to it right away. I'll try to commit the KB detection tonight but i'll prob wait until i see your changes.

I'm thinking of commiting the sysinit.rc to a new branch since that is pretty much where all the android work happens.

Well, I'm having a weird boot cycle issue I haven't figured out quite yet. I'm going to pull down the latest androidinstall.tgz you have up there, touch that up with the new files, and try again tomorrow. It might also have to do with switching the init.android to the one from our rootfs instead of the one from vogue's tinboot. That's what I get for making 15 changes at once and then testing instead of checking after each change

[MassStash]

drats, that's tricky. Well spit somethin out I can test, I got time to work on this today! haha going to shovel a couple accounts right quick, then to the o' drawin' board....

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

Well, I'm having a weird boot cycle issue I haven't figured out quite yet. I'm going to pull down the latest androidinstall.tgz you have up there, touch that up with the new files, and try again tomorrow. It might also have to do with switching the init.android to the one from our rootfs instead of the one from vogue's tinboot. That's what I get for making 15 changes at once and then testing instead of checking after each change

Ahh yes. let me know how that goes. I havent compared the init.androids but there must be some differences. Also think about this. If this is build specific, we can symlink it to the build itself so we dont have to update it in the initrd.

I'll update the install script tonight so you can see the auto kb detection mechanisms.

edit: also some of the nand code is getting moved over to haret and coming back with updates.lol. So i'll be updating the kernel as well.

[natemcnutty]

Originally Posted by [ACL]

Ahh yes. let me know how that goes. I havent compared the init.androids but there must be some differences. Also think about this. If this is build specific, we can symlink it to the build itself so we dont have to update it in the initrd.

I'll update the install script tonight so you can see the auto kb detection mechanisms.

edit: also some of the nand code is getting moved over to haret and coming back with updates.lol. So i'll be updating the kernel as well.

I really like the idea of symlinking it. I won't get to play with this at all really tonight, but tomorrow I only work a half day, so I will have a bit more time to play with this. Also, there are a few settings in sysinit.rc that I am curious about, but maybe we can save that for a later time

Edit: An example of what I mean is, I see we commented out the portions dealing with /cache. For educational value, I'm curious why we would remove that.

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

I really like the idea of symlinking it. I won't get to play with this at all really tonight, but tomorrow I only work a half day, so I will have a bit more time to play with this. Also, there are a few settings in sysinit.rc that I am curious about, but maybe we can save that for a later time

Edit: An example of what I mean is, I see we commented out the portions dealing with /cache. For educational value, I'm curious why we would remove that.

Ahh yes. We commented out /cache since it requires a partition we dont have.

I guess normal android devices have a partition on nand just for this .

#mount yaffs2 mtd@cache /cache nosuid nodev

Also i commented it out since dzo apparently does it on the initrd.

mkdir -p -m 0777 /data/tmpcache
ln -s /data/tmpcache /cache

I guess the above should be moved out of initrd and moved into android to comply with future builds.. Good call.. must add it to the task list..