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

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Mon May 29 16:33:17 EDT 2006


I think Mark needs to chime in on this one; my schematic reading skills
are 30 years out of date...
                             Regards,
                                   - Jim


On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 22:24 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Ron,
> > 
> > I don't want to erase the Insyde BIOS at the moment (have no way to
> > easily recover it) - I'm trying to load olpc.2306.bin in memory (using
> > the FS2) and execute directly from there.
> 
> Hm. There is a socket for a removable flash chip. Maybe Jim can tell
> you what chip you can fit in there and which jumper exactly has to
> be soldered to use the socket instead of the builtin BIOS chip.
> 
> > What is the LinuxBIOS entry point ? Is it possible at all do this?
> 
> Unlikely.
> 
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
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Jim Gettys
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