[OLPC-devel] Teleconference information for software status meeting tonight. (note change in time).

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:40:45PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:32:45PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> > Richard Smith wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Perhaps we could make a tweak to kexec so it could load memtest?
> > >>
> > >>I thought it could ...
> > >>
> > >
> > >kexec maybe but kbl-kexec dosen't like it. I just tried and got 'not a 
> > >bzImage'.
> > >
> > In the source code for kbl-exec, the source code that purports to 
> > support ordinary ELF
> > images is commented out with "#if 0".
> > 
> > See work/kexec-boot-loader/kexec-boot-loader/kexec/kexec.c line 191 and 
> > kexec-x86.c line 93.
> > 
> > Personally, I think this is a Bad Thing.  Why should it only be possible 
> > to boot something
> > that is in a complicated format that is only used by the Linux kernel?
> 
> The reason for commenting out the code is the 1MiB size constraint. The
> assumption was that the OLPC BIOS would only boot Linux kernel's.
> 

Err..

> You're free using the original kexec-tools from buildrom/packages/ which

You're free to use the original kexec-tools from www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/

> supports static ELF binaries (memtest86 is supposed to boot via kexec,
> though I haven't tried it myself).