Thanks for the offer. I'll think about it once I can get a linux kernel working
in my own hardware. :)
There is no dedicated serial port though I guess I could do serial over usb if
I needed to.
It makes more sense to me to start by using the kernel I already have if
possible and move to a custom kernel once I know that works. I have enough
space for a kernel at this point though depending on the combined size of
kernel + initrm I may run into a problem. I'm really not sure how big the
initrd will end up being or if there is an option to link to the initrd on the
hard drive.
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Subject: Re: [coreboot] kernel payload
Local Time: May 5, 2017 12:14 PM
UTC Time: May 5, 2017 6:14 PM
From: rminn...@gmail.com
To: Healer64 <heale...@protonmail.com>
coreboot@coreboot.org <coreboot@coreboot.org>
neat! Do you have serial console or just graphics?
We've been doing a lot of this linux payload stuff lately. I assume you can
recover from a bad image. If so, I'd recommend building a kernel with
kerneltiny config
(or whatever it's called -- tinykernel?), add back in console support of your
choice, set the command line in menuconfig for earlypintk=tty0 or ttyS0,keep
and boot it and see how far it gets. the kerneltiny configf can get you to a
400K bzImage so it's worth the effort to start small and grow it up -- that's
how we've done it in my project at Google (not a chromeos project, though I'll
be talking about it this fall).
To give you an idea of just how far the tiny kernel stuff goes, it removes all
tests for uid != 0 and also all options to set uid to !0. This makes sense in a
firmware payload. There's a lot of space saving options in that config and
that's how you get a tiny kernel.
Once you get past this point you can then look at what initramfs to add. Or
maybe you are past that point, but let's talk. I've been doing this a lot for
the past year and I have probably made lots of mistakes I can help you avoid ...
BTW, I'm looking for people to work with on a project embedding Linux and a Go
userland in flash, so if anyone out there wants to get involved, please, we
need your brains. see u-root.tk.
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