On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:53:14PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi,
This is Fedora's initramfs, right?
Right.
Peter's suggestion is to use pilgrim to create rawhide builds, hence using the olpc initramfs.
That's an interesting idea. I don't like it long-term, because no-one's working on pilgrim or our initramfs, but it could help us get moving.
Two small corrections:
a) the initramfs continues happily under active volunteer development -- it received two new features and a bugfix contributed by a deployment support volunteer (dsd) in the last two weeks, along with patch review and volunteer testing by folks back here in the States.
b) While pilgrim may be a dead-end, the ideas underlying it are not. This week, I translated pilgrim's ideas into the simplest form yet achieved, namely, a plain old Makefile:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mstone/puritan;a=tree;hb=make
and used it to produce builds from the olpc4+joyride tree and the rawhide+olpc4+joyride tree (with minor edits).
The former booted happily into Sugar and built on both Debian and Fedora. :) (The latter, still using the olpc initramfs, dies because upstart 0.5 still doesn't know how to run as non-pid-1. olpc4's upstart-0.3.9 has a patch which implements this feature.)
Peter does not have an XO (grr@contrib program extreme slowness!) but may be able to help on other issues that surface as the result of an available public build...
Oh, let's fix that. Ed, SJ, could one of you take care of sending Peter some XOs ASAP, please?
Good idea.
Michael