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

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:12:20PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:03:08PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> > 	version 2306 will boot a linux kernel.
> > 
> > What would help is if one of you wants to build the absolute minimum 
> > kernel and initrd and send me a source tree pointer and .config. I'm 
> > using 2.6.14 with tiny linux patches right now.
> 
> Ron,
> 
> FYI:
> 
> I'm writing a small program to mount the flash partition with JFFS2,
> read the kernel from there, and sys_kexec() it.

Ok, not so easy. Latest versions of kexec-tools include a "purgatory"
stage which contains ~= 40k of code (intermediate state between two
running kernels).

Will need to come up with a slim version of the userspace kexec
procedure, shouldnt be very hard either.

> > I'm working on the tools to build a bootable image.
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