Re: setup for XO development
Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:55:00PM +0100, Paolo wrote: Hello, I would like to try out the XO software and get started with doing some development. As I am a security guy, I am mostly interested in core development, especially bitfrost/rainbow, and the document store. Music to my ears! Unfortunately, I was hit by a truckload of work just as I was getting started. But I will try again in a few weeks, and get back to you when I am at least familiar with some of the code. If you haven't already found them, please check out http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Security There are a bunch 'TODOs' on those pages where your assistance would be most welcome, or if you prefer, you might suggest some topics that interest you. Thanks, I did look around on those pages. I think rainbow is really cool. I find it much less taxing on my braincells than a vserver based approach. ciao Paolo Milani ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
setup for XO development
Hello, I would like to try out the XO software and get started with doing some development. As I am a security guy, I am mostly interested in core development, especially bitfrost/rainbow, and the document store. I expect an emulated environment would be a good choice for this type of development. I followed instructions on the wiki and tried to set up virtualbox (because it's what I already use, I have no problems switching to kvm/qemu if needed, although unfortunately the 2 will not run side by side on the same system). The image I am using is the official build 767: xo-1-olpc-stream-8.2-build-767-20081001_1633-devel_ext3.img.bz2 on an amd64 ubuntu hardy, with latest non-free virtualbox (2.0.4). ..but I ran into the 3dnow problem that other people have complained about already. When booting, I get the following message: This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: 3dnow Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. Should I try kvm/qemu to solve this problem? Or are there other olpc images I should be using? Or should I try running it natively? I would rather not have to dual-boot... Or, finally, should I rebuild myself an image from scratch, with a non-3dnow kernel? I'm not afraid to try any of these options but I'd rather not have to try them all before I get anything working, which is why I am asking for help ;-) thanks, Paolo Milani ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
