I've tested and confirmed that the new package fixes the problem:
* built a Linaro image according to http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-announce/2010-November/000025.html and tested it under qemu's beaglexm model => fails to boot as expected (hwpack has old version of x-loader-omap)
* downloaded x-loader-omap 1.4.4git20100713-1ubuntu2.1 and manually updated the hwpack tarball to include it instead of the -1ubuntu2 package
* rebuilt the Linaro image
* tested image on qemu beaglexm => successfully detects 512MB of RAM and boots to a shell prompt (bug is fixed :-))
* tested image on real hardware Beagle XM rev A2 => detects 512MB of RAM and boots to a shell prompt (ie no regression on hardware)
I've tested and confirmed that the new package fixes the problem: lists.linaro. org/pipermail/ linaro- announce/ 2010-November/ 000025. html and tested it under qemu's beaglexm model => fails to boot as expected (hwpack has old version of x-loader-omap) 3-1ubuntu2. 1 and manually updated the hwpack tarball to include it instead of the -1ubuntu2 package
* built a Linaro image according to http://
* downloaded x-loader-omap 1.4.4git2010071
* rebuilt the Linaro image
* tested image on qemu beaglexm => successfully detects 512MB of RAM and boots to a shell prompt (bug is fixed :-))
* tested image on real hardware Beagle XM rev A2 => detects 512MB of RAM and boots to a shell prompt (ie no regression on hardware)