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

From: linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Lu, Yinghai
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:09 PM
To: ron minnich; yhlu
Cc: myles@mouselemur.cs.byu.edu; LinuxBIOS
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

Ron,

Where is patch for mkelfImage that can take vmlinux instead of bzImage?

From: linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of ron minnich
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:34 PM
To: yhlu
Cc: myles@mouselemur.cs.byu.edu; LinuxBIOS
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

On 10/29/06, yhlu <yinghailu@gmail.com> 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