The ol' Linux-on-Linux

[Samuel Rydh]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:16:17AM -0700, Dan Potter wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response!
> 
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 3:14 AM, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> 
> >Well, linux in MOL has not really been released properly. What you  
> >need
> >to do is running a modified linux kernel within MOL.
> >
> >While it is possible to run un unmodified linux kernel and
> >load mol specific drivers as kernel modules from an initrd,
> >it turned out this was not a very practical solution
> >(the source to those kernel modules are available in the ldev
> >BitKeeper repository).
> 
> Yeah, I saw the notes about loading up an initrd and then switching  
> to a new root. I may give that a try just to see if I can get it  
> going in the mean time. Was that under 2.4 also, or do those modules  
> work in 2.6?

No, those modules are 2.4 only.

> As I said before, I'm fairly capable with the low level stuff (one of  
> my open source projects was an OS for writing Dreamcast homebrew  
> games) so if you'd like someone to dump some source on for testing or  
> whatever, just let me know.

Great! I'll send a patch with MOL support to the 2.4 kernel
off list.

/Samuel