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

[Ronald G Minnich]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

In the limit, that won't really work. qemu is a 440bx chipset. There 
will be differences, that may impact the kernel, that are reflected from 
that fact.

ron