30.10.2010 20:37, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет: > Am Samstag, 30. Oktober 2010, 19:19:03 schrieb Andrew: >> 30.10.2010 19:45, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет: >>> What about the kernel?? >>> kp >> IMHO we need to provide different kernels; one - for legacy i486 or >> Geode (or even separate kernels), and one - with SMP, more than 4GB >> memory support (at least - for PAE enabling, for NX bit) for PentiumII >> or higher. > I agree, but IMHO it's a long/middle term goal (beta2 or 3). > To get a beta 1 done I think a generic kernel based on the 486 processor will > be enough for a start (the Bering-uClibc series worked out well, with only one > kernel - no objection, if we improve it during the release cycle). > > I believe the main target for beta1 is to detect remaining bugs and to provide > a proof-of-concept (or slightly more - I run Bering-uClibc4 for weeks in > production). > > Different kernels are nice-to-have, but IMHO it requires a lot more work, > thoughts and testing - and esp. for testing, users who started to use Bering- > uClibc4 (with the first beta). > > kp It isn't too hard to built some packages for different kernel arch without deep config cleaning (just one like current i686 with SMP but possible with 64GB RAM support - for PAE and dependent NX bit support, and one generic i486 w/o SMP - like your), later we can do clean-up. 1st kernel will be very suitable for ISPs (like as own company), and 2nd kernel - for small devices like Alix board. I think that enough ISPs needed something like this - and some of them tried to develop their own distro (for ex., GlobalOS by nuclearcat - which isn't modular, is huge comparable to Bering-uClibc, has no documentation except one very tine howto page + forum thread, and it's configs are poor).
Also, i686 SMP kernel is tested and looks stable (i use it under enough heavy loads - after GCC update to 4.4.5 no troubles noticed), i486 - even still not assembled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
