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PanzerSajt | # 301 | 2012-06-26, 12:43 | Report

You can send and receive SMS-s even you can make or receive calls, but there's no sound support yet and no GUI for SMS/Voice calls.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/n900#GSM

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don_falcone | # 302 | 2012-06-26, 13:14 | Report

Originally Posted by unknown.obvious View Post

Didn't try it but this might still work:

http://forums.webosnation.com/3173082-post471.html

Alternative way that works even sooner: http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~kalmar/blog/?p=247

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int_ua | # 303 | 2012-06-26, 13:34 | Report

Originally Posted by caveman View Post

The most significant diff from stock version is that the root partition is no longer fixed at the third partition.

Nice patch

I have one question and two requests.
What's the benefit of having dynamic root partition number?
Can you please make patches against the unstable branch? Currently I'm adding parts of your patch so wait until revision 128. Also, I'm going to change the URL for unstable branch right now, will update this post and the first one in the thread with it.
And the last one: AFAICS the dynamic root partition number doesn't work yet because of unchanged install-chroot-part.sh

Update:
Unstable branch:

Code:

bzr branch lp:~xintx-ua/ubuntu-n900/unstable

https://code.launchpad.net/~xintx-ua...-n900/unstable

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caveman | # 304 | 2012-06-26, 16:33 | Report

Originally Posted by unknown.obvious View Post

Didn't try it but this might still work:

http://forums.webosnation.com/3173082-post471.html

I tried this one but could not make it work.

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caveman | # 305 | 2012-06-26, 16:34 | Report

Originally Posted by don_falcone View Post

Alternative way that works even sooner: http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~kalmar/blog/?p=247

Worked perfectly!!!

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caveman | # 306 | 2012-06-26, 16:50 | Report

Originally Posted by int_ua View Post

Nice patch

I have one question and two requests.
What's the benefit of having dynamic root partition number?

From the functional POV I think none, although it makes things more flexible. This was a by-product of using sfdisk instead of fdisk.

Originally Posted by

Can you please make patches against the unstable branch? Currently I'm adding parts of your patch so wait until revision 128. Also, I'm going to change the URL for unstable branch right now, will update this post and the first one in the thread with it.

Sure. I will wait for 128 and take a look.

Originally Posted by

And the last one: AFAICS the dynamic root partition number doesn't work yet because of unchanged install-chroot-part.sh

Yesterday I ran the installation to the end using only 2 partitions (vfat and ext4 root), and I booted the system fine last night with root at p2. I will double-check this point.

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int_ua | # 307 | 2012-06-26, 17:27 | Report

Originally Posted by caveman View Post

From the functional POV I think none, although it makes things more flexible. This was a by-product of using sfdisk instead of fdisk.

Sure. I will wait for 128 and take a look.

Yesterday I ran the installation to the end using only 2 partitions (vfat and ext4 root), and I booted the system fine last night with root at p2. I will double-check this point.

The only thing I don't like about this approach to dynamic root number is moving dialogs further from the start. We can try adding root number as some string that will be replaced when it's known...
I've updated it, check the post for address

So you are using custom bootmenu item with new U-Boot and edited it to contain proper partition number, right?

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caveman | # 308 | 2012-06-26, 18:01 | Report

Originally Posted by int_ua View Post

The only thing I don't like about this approach to dynamic root number is moving dialogs further from the start. We can try adding root number as some string that will be replaced when it's known...

I agree that it is better to begin with the dialogs. That can be work-arounded by moving the device/partition/file dialog to before the kernel params dialog, so that all partition variables will be known at that point, and later the script can start doing its hard work.

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I've updated it, check the post for address

I got it.

Originally Posted by

So you are using custom bootmenu item with new U-Boot and edited it to contain proper partition number, right?

Yes. Propagating the proper root partition is indeed missing in the patch.

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caveman | # 309 | 2012-06-26, 21:59 | Report

patch enabling dynamic partitions against the unstable branch rev 128

i added some dialog reordering to keep the dialogs at the begining

Attached Files

dynamic_partition.patch.txt (6.7 KB, 104 views)

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caveman | # 310 | 2012-06-27, 15:06 | Report

place nemo repositories in variables

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	nemo_repo_vars.patch.txt (2.2 KB, 102 views)
	item_file_fix.patch.txt (1.5 KB, 89 views)

Last edited by caveman; 2012-06-27 at 18:07. Reason: added fix for u-boot item file generation

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