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

[Ronald G Minnich]

I've seen the numbers so far and we're still off.
recall that the room we have is
   512
- 64 (keyboard)
- 35 (vsa MINUS softvg) (I was able to shrink this from 64k)
			(this is not including softvg)
			(I would rather NOT have softvg in here)
- 28 (linuxbios)  	(down from 32k)
----
389

we're still about 70k off, best so far is about 460.

I am going to set up a simulation environment in qemu just to test some 
ideas out.

Here is one possible idea that we have used on other linuxbios 
platforms, an idea which we have used in the past when space was very 
tight.

Think of the Linux in the ROM BIOS as a pure boot loader. It has one and 
only one function in life: to load a kernel from one of two places, USB 
or NAND FLASH. The kernel need not be stored in a file system -- it can 
be stored as an ELF image in the first <x> blocks of the medium.

In this situation, this ROM BIOS-based Linux kernel is purely a boot 
loader. No file systems needed. It need only be capable of loading an 
elf image from USB or from NAND FLASH.

We can still have our initrd (or initramfs) with its prompt about which 
medium to load from. But it won't be using a file system for the kernel 
it loads.

As I say, I'll be testing this configuration in qemu and let you know 
how it goes.

thanks

ron