[LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

[Myles Watson]

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

 

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From: Lu, Yinghai [mailto:yinghai.lu at amd.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:28 PM
To: Lu, Yinghai; ron minnich; yhlu
Cc: myles at mouselemur.cs.byu.edu; 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

 

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From: linuxbios-bounces at linuxbios.org
[mailto:linuxbios-bounces at linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Lu, Yinghai
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:09 PM
To: ron minnich; yhlu
Cc: myles at 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?

 

YH

 

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

 

 

On 10/29/06, yhlu <yinghailu at 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

 

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