[OLPC-devel] Re: AMD Geode GX framebuffer: support OLPC

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 11:46 -0600, ollie wrote:
> How closely and low level do you want to emulate OLPC on non OLPC 
> machines? Do you want to emulate the Flash ROM thing as well?

No. We boot qemu via grub.

> I don't think is necessary to emulate the LinuxBIOS boot process
> on non OLPC machines. You simply have to provide two versions of 
> kernel, one for emulator and high level software development and
> the other for embedding in the real hardware.

We want to use the same kernel for both OLPC hardware and qemu.
Packaging multiple kernels just introduces a bunch of issues as I'm sure
or kernel package maintainers here at Red Hat will tell you.

    David