[OLPC-devel] you can try this

[Jim Gettys]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 15:56 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> OK, I am just back from travel ...
> 
> Steve, your VSA was 70k, which busted the 64k limit. So, I have added 
> support to OLPC that assumes that the VSA is NRV2B compressed. This cut 
> it from 70k to 42k. You now have 20k left to consume. More desirable, in 
> future, would be for us to get this down to 32k, to leave room for linux ...
> 
> anyway, I have run your VSA but still have no video.
> 
> What else do I need to get video turned on?
> 
> Is anyone out there working on the 'definitive' kernel/initrd, or should 
> I be doing that after all? I don't mind, just checking.
> 
> Ollie and I are in boston next week. I'm willing and able to open up a 
> 'hack day' anytime after wed. so we can beat on this hardware. Any 
> interest?

Yes.

We can have (a) serious hack day(s) in Cambridge if you like.  We now
have quite a few boards, displays, keyboards, mice, USB hubs, USB
ethernet adapters, flash drives, disk drives, etc.  In short, we're
pretty well set up now for development.
                         - Jim

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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child