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

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Aug 15 16:52:13 EDT 2006


David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:20 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> So how much bigger is the kernel going to be? I bet we're willing to pay
> that price to avoid maintaining two kernel rpm packages.
> 
>     David
> 
> 
well, I don't know. I think for olpc the goal is a small, tight kernel 
wired as closely as possible to be an olpc kernel. that's my preference.

ron



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