Hi, Welcome, Mitch!
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:08:57PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > Minutes for OLPC BIOS meeting, 2006-08-02, taken by Mitch Bradley > > This meeting was split out from a meeting that occurred on 2006-08-02. > > > Agenda > ====== > Please send me any items to add to the list. These occur to me as > topics we should start working through, get owners for and get closed. > It is a long list; we'll have to be disciplined to get through it. > > We really want to do LZMA compression, which would be even better. The idea is to have LinuxBIOS support LZMA compression, although Linux could do that by itself (BTW, I fail to see the advantage of having LinuxBIOS support LZMA instead of the kernel). Carl-Daniel has been working on it (accordingly to him ETA to start that LinuxBIOS LZMA work is 3 weeks from now). > Close to having install onto FLASH from a USB key. Need to: > a) Install LinuxBIOS into FLASH. > b) Install Linux onto NAND FLASH. b) is already done... and a) is pretty close, too (see olpcflash related threads on olpc-devel). > ** Kernel code base: > > Suggestion: Let's go with kernel.org and use truncated config. > > Can't kexec Fedora kernels. We're looking into that... > ** How to archive corresponding TinyLinux patches? > > Need to check patch set versus .18 to see what has gone upstream. Richard Smith did regenerate -tiny patches for recent kernel trees... Richard, I lost your mail, could you resend that CC olpc-devel? > ** Compression status / TCP/IP stack status / wireless install? > > Kernel mods for LZMA are available. LZMA seems to do better than gzip > for executables. Saves ~190K. May buy us enough for TCP stack. > Fallback is to put the TCP stuff as a separate module in NAND FLASH. > > We need to draw the line soon so we can freeze for the beta build. > > AI (Jim and Ray): Write a boot requirements document. Ray will write draft, > Jim will review. Any news on this? > ** Is mem= needed? Jordan thinks yes. > > Ron: I think it's only needed due to a bug in the driver or the way the > kernel comes up. I have no objection to it. More details please? > ** Can we autodetect memory size/flash size? > > Ron: yes in both cases, at what point in bootup do you wish to do this? > > > ** User interface. > > Ron: Not sure which UI you mean :-) > > > ** Requirements to make production as fast/cheap/easy as possible. > > Ron: we have to pick the usb->enet dongle so we can start testing it. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
