[Arm-netbook] First stab at a custom kernel

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> wrote:
> Luke: have you perhaps checked if the root FS gets erased before installing
> a new tarball or if partial firmware updates are possible?

 they're not.

> I think this method should be safe enough as one could still revert to the
> standard installation by doing a firmware update with the standard kernel
> etc. As long as u-boot is not corrupted at least.

 i concur with this assessment.

> The main question is whether or not u-boot will have problems with the
> changed size of the kernel image, but I think not.

 naah.