The kernel building wiki pages (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building) suggest that the only way to build an OLPC kernel is using Fedora Core 6 or 7. This is quite limiting for people like me who don't use Fedora regularly as we would have to dual-boot Fedora or install it in a VM just to build kernels, while most Linux distros are perfectly capable of building a normal kernel.
Has any work been done on removing the dependency on Fedora Core for kernel building? Can someone provide a brief list of the reasons for this dependency so that those interested in fixing it can do so? I realize that it would still be necessary to have RPM installed to create an RPM for quick deployment on an XO, but it should be easy to at least make the kernel binary and perhaps even the initrd image without RPM. Being able to build the kernel binary seems to be sufficient for most development purposes as a developer could just add the new binary to /boot and update the /boot/vmlinuz symlink or update olpc.fth. Denver _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
