[OLPC-devel] Tasks?

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Fri Jul 7 10:57:08 EDT 2006


John,

Go with Ron's suggestion for the moment.  We have to get to the bottom
of this weirdness, and it won't be hard to diff between kernel.org and
Fedora....
                          Regards,
                                 - Jim


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:16 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 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 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child





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