nospam wrote:
> OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project had released XO Laptops for the public
> using G1G1 ("Buy 2 Get 1").
> One laptop will be sent to the buyer, another laptop will be sent to a child
> in developing country.
>
> Unfortunately the XO AMD Geode LX laptops is different from other laptops:
> 1. There is no BIOS inside the laptop.
> 2. There is no VGA/EGA/CGA mode.
> 3. Non standard boot procedure.
> 4. Nobody knows if it is possible to boot the laptop from external CD-Drive.
> 5. Ordinary / off-the-shelf OpenSolaris can't run on this laptop. Linux run
> on XO with patched/modified kernel.
>
There was some experimentation done with a prototype OLPC
board and BeleniX. One person was able to get BeleniX booted
on the OLPC from an external CDROM drive but faced some
issues with processor extensions used in the math library. So
init was crashing.
This was with a prototype board using a standard BIOS. But OLPC
now uses LinuxBIOS. Osol can be made to boot with LinuxBIOS:
http://blogs.sun.com/szhou/
The OpenSolaris kernel can boot and work in OLPC and 256MB
RAM should be enough to run a lightweight GUI. Some stripping
of modules are definitely required, including having a minimal
Xorg.
Keeping a controlled set of apps will be enough to fit Osol onto
a small footprint diskspace. There is a lot that won't be required
in the OLPC environment.
The difficulties I see are having a lightweight filesystem for the
Flash storage with compression support. ZFS is a little too heavy
for the OLPC application domain.
Regards,
Moinak.
> Is it possible to port OpenSolaris to XO laptops?
> Who can do this project?
> Thank you.
>
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