[OLPC-devel] New buildrom is ready

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Sun Aug 13 19:31:59 EDT 2006


David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:30 -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> 
>>Hey all - I pushed up a goodly amount of changes to buildrom.  The default
>>path now boots from NAND/USB without any keyboard interaction.  Press
>>escape during the progress bar to get the usual menu.
> 
> 
> Did you test booting from NAND? Looks like the kernel file still lacks
> MTD, NAND, JFFS2 support. Likewise I2C, which we'll need for the DCON
> poke.
>  

hang on  ... i2c stuff could be done by the kernel we kexec, right? We 
need to be careful about what we put in the buildrom kernel ("boot 
kernel") vs. the "operational kernel" we boot off of disk.

I think .. am I missing something?

thanks

ron



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