[OLPC-devel] just verified: 2306 + olpc + linux kernel works.

[Jim Gettys]

What's the size of the VESA piece of VSA?
                     - Jim


On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:22 -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> Hi, I can not get this system with initrd and exec tool below about 480k.
> 
> It needs to now be really small: 384KB!
> 512 KB
> 64 KB controller (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
> 32 KB linuxbios (I will try to shrink ...)
> 32 KB VSA
> ---------
> 384kb
> 
> This is *REALLY* small. However I am within 5k of being there.
> 
> OK, you're not going to like this, but ...I don't think, in 512kb, that we
> can afford an initrd. I don't think we can leave kernel mode until we have
> interacted a bit with the user, prompted for a root, mounted the root, and
> run /sbin/init from it.
> 
> In other words, I think we're going to need to prompt in main() for
> options, and then do those options in main (kernel mode) and find a USB or
> FLASH root, and take it from there. I am going to look into this. I did it
> a few years ago for another linuxbios environment. Ugly, but it worked.
> 
> comments, brickbats, poison pen letters welcome.
> 
> thanks
> 
> ron
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Jim Gettys
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