we may need to install linux from CD... YH
On 10/31/06, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Why do you need kexec in the ROM? Is there a good reason not to put it on > the same device that holds the kernel you'll kexec to? > > > > Myles > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Lu, Yinghai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:28 PM > To: Lu, Yinghai; ron minnich; yhlu > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LinuxBIOS > Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way > > > > > Please check the build payload for amd64. > > > > It includes: IDE, and SATA(nvidia). And only 32kbytes left. ---- assume > 1Mbytes space, and linuxbios will use 96kbytes. > > > > Todo: > > put the kexec tools into the initrd… (32kbytes) > > Hope to use ron't update mkelfImage to get more 32kbytes for kexec tools > > > > YH > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lu, Yinghai > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:09 PM > To: ron minnich; yhlu > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LinuxBIOS > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way > > > > Ron, > > > > Where is patch for mkelfImage that can take vmlinux instead of bzImage? > > > > YH > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ron minnich > Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:34 PM > To: yhlu > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LinuxBIOS > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way > > > > > > > On 10/29/06, yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but the one still include VSA and linuxbios in it. > > busybox > > > > > you want this. > > > > > kernel > kexec-boot-loader > > > > > you want this > > > > > > kexec-tools > mkelfimage > uclibc > > > > > > > > do i need kexec-boot-loader? > > > > yes > > If you look in deploy, for now, you can use the payload, which is built > without containing linuxbios or vsa. That is how I got a working payload for > ultra40. > > What we need to do with buildrom is extend it so we can have a config file > for a given platform, that builds the proper kernel AND linuxbios, and has > payloads like VSA as an OPTION. I think this is easy. I did it (sort of) for > qemu. > > ron > > -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios