[OLPC-devel] Tasks?

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Jul 7 10:16:44 EDT 2006


John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:03 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> 
>>build a .config for linux 2.6.17 tailored to perfectly match OLPC hardware.
> 
> 
> Do you think I should start with a kernel from kernel.org or source
> rpm's in the yum repository (I'm a Debian user so this rpm stuff is
> something I haven't dealt with for some time, but I will get along).
> 
> If the latter, what is the URL for the yum repository?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- John.
> 

I would start with kernel.org, personally. There's something weird going 
on and I'd like to know if it is some set of local patches.

Basically, if the kernel+initrd size is > 1M, the kexec will fail. This 
from last night.

ron



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