[LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

[yhlu]

we may need to install linux from CD...

YH

On 10/31/06, Myles Watson <myles at pel.cs.byu.edu> wrote:
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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
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> Please check the build payload for amd64.
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> It includes: IDE, and SATA(nvidia). And only 32kbytes left.  ---- assume
> 1Mbytes space, and linuxbios will use 96kbytes.
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> Hope to use ron't update mkelfImage to get more 32kbytes for kexec tools
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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
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> Ron,
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> Where is patch for mkelfImage that can take vmlinux instead of bzImage?
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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
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> On 10/29/06, yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> but the one still include VSA and linuxbios in it.
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>  you want this.
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>  you want this
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> do i need kexec-boot-loader?
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>  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
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>  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
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