On 14 February 2012 05:27, Zygmunt Krynicki zygmunt.krynicki@linaro.orgwrote:
Hi.
Fast model support is getting better. It seems that with the excellent patches by Peter Maydell we can now boot some kernels (I've only tried one tree, additional trees welcome :-). I'm currently building a from-scratch environment to ensure everything is accounted for and I understand how pieces interact.
Having said that I'd like to summarize how LAVA handles fast models:
Technically the solution is not unlike QEMU which you are all familiar with. The key differences are:
- Only NFS boot makes sense. There are no other sensible method that
I know of. We may also use a SD card (virtual obviously) but it is constrained to two gigabytes of data.
It seems that we can also make android boot up from nfs. http://www.omappedia.org/wiki/Android_Getting_Started#Other_ways_to_flash_An...
I haven't tried that.
Thanks, Yongqin Liu