[OLPC-devel] writing nand flash on OLPC

[John R.]

On 7/26/06, Mark J. Foster <mfoster at laptop.org> wrote:

> of the USB drives that we've tested.  Alternately, you might begin the
> transition to LinuxBIOS...

Is there a Wiki howto on using LinuxBIOS with OLPC? Last I had asked
Ron Minnich it wasn't ready yet but maybe that has changed.

Maybe if I use the socketed flash chip it would work today? What are
the requirements to use LinuxBIOS with OLPC in its current state?

On the general topic of Fedora kernel vs. bog standard kernels I think
it is error prone and serves no purpose to build required components
of OLPC as modules. I think it would make much more sense to switch to
a kernel.org kernel configured with with most drivers included (not
modules) plus any patches that are necessary or useful specifically
for OLPC.

II see OLPC more as an embedded system than a standard PC. No hard
drive, requirements for short boot times, suspend/resume, small memory
for a modern desktop Linux setup, etc. I don't think that in general
it is appropriate to have a kernel configured for a desktop computer
as the kernel. For the userland stuff I'd guess we would be able to
use more Fedora binary modules, but even there I think we're going to
have to take advantage of compiler options to make some stuff work in
a resource constrained environment.

If anything I'd think we'd be starting with a kernel +patches/ config
targeting, say, a PDA.

-- John.