[Angstrom-devel] new Zaurus SL-C3200 patches available (SL-C3100)

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 14:28 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 02:54 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> 
> > we need to check the
> > partitioning on the C3100 before we apply the NAND partitioning one
> > though. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I consider this patch as an work-around of the fact, that kernel does
> not read command line arguments provided by the boot PROM (NOR flash).

That is by design since there are other parts of the commandline we need
to override.

> There are several chances to verify it for SL-C3100:
> 
> - Anybody with SL-C3100 will boot emergency system and
> check /proc/cmdline.
> 
> - Anybody with SL-C3100 and intact higher NAND partitions (Angstrom does
> not touch them) will try to mount them (-tjffs -oro) with original
> kernel and with kernel with my patch (module change is sufficient in
> 2.6.23, binary is on my page). Only one should succeed.
> 
> - Download SL-C3100 Sharp ROM backup file and try to analyze it.

Google suggests the partitioning is different on the C3100 which
presents a problem since borzoi and terrier are treated the same as far
as the kernel is concerned. The patch will break things for C3100 users.
I'm not sure how we're going to resolve this...

Regards,

Richard