[fedora-arm] uImage-2.6.30-sheevaplug is definitely broken
Chris Tyler
chris at tylers.info
Sat Jan 8 19:33:31 UTC 2011
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 19:05 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> It also sounds ill advised to be burning things that are supposed to get
> updated relatively frequently (kernels DO get updated) to
> non-replaceable flash. Keeping the kernel with the rest of the distro on
> the easily removable/replaceable flash media is probably a more
> reasonable long-term solution. Using built in flash is fine for embedded
> appliances that only see 1-2 updates/year, but not necessarily for
> bleeding edge desktop distributions like Fedora.
Well, there's a huge difference between putting / on NAND and the kernel
on NAND. Assuming just a 10,000-write-cycle durability, updating the
kernel every 3-4 days (100x/year) gives you 100 years of life.
-Chris
More information about the arm
mailing list