Re: SOLUTION - Semi-Bricked h2200

From: David Waybright <david_at_iximd.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:06:28 -0400

I was interested in finding out, are other NAND devices running linux. If so,
where are they in the project (are they at the point that we're at or farther
along).

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Thanks,
David Waybright
Certified CompTIA A+ Technician
Certified CompTIA NETWORK+ Technician
Apple Macintosh Repairs
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Quoting Matt Reimer <mattjreimer_at_gmail.com>:
> On 6/6/07, David Waybright <david_at_iximd.com> wrote:
> > Most of the time the theory was the hard reset wouldn't work and you had to
> let
> > the PDA sit and drain it's battery for like a week before powering it up
> > again.
> >
> > I think your right about the 16K, what happens is the first 16K (or so) of
> ROM
> > is wrote to RAM then kicks over to that RAM copy to boot up far enough to
> > continue off of ROM.  I thought the 16K corruption was already fixed for
> the
> > suspend to work.  If not I think we need to try and fix it so the power
> > mangement (off & suspend) work better, possibly by telling either Haret,
> LAB,
> > Linux or the like NOT to touch that portion of RAM.
> 
> Suspend/resume/power management has worked fine for a long time, at
> least on older kernels, by patching the bootloader in SRAM to work
> with Linux. The problem happens when something (anything in the
> kernel) goes awry and scribbles on the SRAM.
> 
> Likely the suspend/resume problems with HEAD kernels is due to
> hamcop_base not being converted to a platform driver yet.
> 
> Matt
> 
Received on Thu Jun 07 2007 - 08:06:31 EDT

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