[Discussion] CyanogenMod 7.x for Spica build 7.4 [+ 7.9 test build]

[hitlin37]

Currently init (sources in system/core/init) is patched to load different .rc files depending on bootmode argument in kernel command line. If it detects bootmode=2 or bootmode=4 it loads init.rc and recovery.rc, otherwise it loads init.rc and init.spica.rc.

This requires init.rc to contain everything common for both boot modes (including platform specific things), init.spica.rc - specific for normal boot and recovery.rc - specific for recovery (like it is done in my initramfs-3.0 repository), so standard init.rc from Android (system/core/rootdir) cannot be used, because it doesn't contain setup exclusive for Spica and is made for normal boot only.

In normal setup, default for Android, recovery kernel has just a generic init.rc for recovery and init.whatever.rc for given platform and same goes for normal kernel, where just another variant of init.rc is included.

Also the resulting kernels are smaller, because in normal kernel the recovery doesn't have to be included and in recovery kernel some things relevant only for normal boot can be removed, like WiFi module.

Thanks for the reply!

[zhmstar0310]

I believe that it's a problem with your battery. Try to disable any wireless data connections (mobile data, WiFi, etc.) and leave it for a while with screen turned off.

But I didn't have this question when I use build 7.3 with default kernel , and I turn it down when I charge it , so there is no data connections. Maybe I should do some test in the next days.

[tom3q]

But I didn't have this question when use build 7.3 with default kernel , and I turn it down when I charge it , so there is no data connections. Maybe I should do some test in the next days.

Installed ROM/kernel doesn't affect charging when the phone is turned off, if this is what you mean. All that is running on the phone in offline charging mode is Samsung's bootloader (Sbl).

[AmurX]

tom3q, how many completed the work on your u-boot in percentage?

[tom3q]

tom3q, how many completed the work on your u-boot in percentage?

You don't measure software development in percents.

[AmurX]

so what measure?

[tom3q]

so what measure?

It's binary. You can say that it's in development if it doesn't fully work or that it's done when all the required functionality works.

I could say that 90% is done and then half of that 90% could turn out to be wrong, because the remaining 10% couldn't be done properly and it would jump down to 45%. Another thing is that I could have much free time and do that 90% in few days and then I would be busy and the remaining 10% would take much longer.

[AmurX]

It's binary. You can say that it's in development if it doesn't fully work or that it's done when all the required functionality works.

ok, i ask for another: before release far?

[tom3q]

ok, i ask for another: before release far?

I can't answer this kind of questions. It's in development and it will be released when I finish it. That's all the information I can give.

[zhmstar0310]

Installed ROM/kernel doesn't affect charging when the phone is turned off, if this is what you mean. All that is running on the phone in offline charging mode is Samsung's bootloader (Sbl).

Maybe I didn't express or understand you clearly , you said "Try to disable any wireless data connections (mobile data, WiFi, etc.) and leave it for a while with screen turned off" , so said I turned it down when I charged it .