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

[Ronald G Minnich]

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

FYI, I did the first one of these linux-boots-linux things in 1999, it 
was called LOBOS. It was not featureful,but it was VERY compact, and was 
also the most portable. If we can't fit kexec, we can try LOBOS.


ron