[LG Optimus 2x] tonyp:
@all the people who made posts in favor of the new bootloader:

If (and only if!) the callbug is fixed for good in the old bootloader, are there valid reasons to stick with the new one?

Official CM10 most likely stays at the old one, it's my opinion that all CM-based ROMs should follow arcee's lead here.

Here are a couple reasons I heard why people want to stick to the new one.

I quickly typed in my answers to them. There are still counter arguments against them for sure, but I don't want to discuss a small part of my reasoning, only the whole picture.

So if you want to join in the discussion make sure to find some proper arguments and don't use lame one liner comments (or we'll laugh about you).

It's easier to switch after updating to the official LG Stock ROM!

You have to use NVFlash anyways to flash the cracked bootloader. You could repartition to the old partition layout at the same time.

That's better than being forced to use NVFlash everytime you're trying different CM-based ROMs.

And as you need to do a full wipe when changing between the Stock and CM ROM (and vice versa) anyways, it's not as complicated as being forced to do the full wipe to try out different CM-based ROMs (where you usually don't need a full wipe).

It doesn't suffer from the callbug!

We're only discussing the bootlaoder question IF the callbug really got fixed on the old layout.

It's looking good so far but will be given some more time.

The system partition is bigger, it contains more space for bigger ROMs.

You can easily increase the system partion at the old layout as well.

Advantage: You don't waste 370mb for that useless fota partition.

Note: Swap is not a counter-argument, you can easily mount the swap partition somewhere else.

The community will get fragmented!

It will, yes. But it will get fragmented even more when CM-based ROMs are using different bootloaders, as people don't want to switch all the time.

And the community has always been splitted between Stock users and CM users. A couple users do switch, but most do either prefer the one or the other.

There will still be "test" CM ROMs on the new bl and Stock ROMs on the old bl so users will be able to get a picture of the "other side" before changing the partion layout & bootloader.

I want to be able to switch to Stock ICS easily!

This is the only reason I could understand.

But it's better to draw the seperation line between Stock users and CM users with the bootloader than to cut the CM users apart.

Cutting CM apart will get ugly - devs either choose one side and it's complicate for users to choose - or devs have to offer ROMs for both layouts which takes more time that could get spent on better things (like new features).

I'm lazy, I already had to switch to the new bootloader, I don't want to switch again.

Yes, that sucks. So what?

That can always happen if you use experimental custom ROMs.

You can still use CWM backups - and in the end everyone will benefit from it, even if it's a little more work once.

A one time switch is better than being forced to constantly do it.

Oh and for everyone who's on the new bl and got more work now there's at least one on the old bl who doesn't need to change.

I have no idea what this discussion is about. But new sounds better than old. I want new. Blahblah.

GTFO!

Additionally I do see a couple more arguments in favor of the old bootloader, the main certainly is: Official CM10 uses it

Remember: arcee gave us so much - CM7, CM9 (which CM10 hackfest was based on) and now official CM10.

Without him most of the custom ROM development would never have existed - trust me, you want to be on his side.

If CM10 would switch to the cracked one I am the first to follow, but as long as it doesn't we really should follow that way.