[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Suggestions for scirocco?

[From: Charles 'Buck' Krasic]

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Frantisek Dufka wrote:

> Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think it would be nice if in addition to a rootfs, there is a
>> kernel that includes some of the extras that are useful for
>> developers. The main example I am thinking of is NFS client
>> support, so that the scratchbox CPU transparency feature is
>> easier to setup (I think it was this way in Maemo 1.x, but I am
>> not sure).
>>
>> - -- Buck
>
>
> Could be solved by packaging additional modules, Familiar did this,
> you can have kernel-modules-nfs package etc. Would be nice to have
> most modules packaged like this and have depmod/modprobe on device
> working. I'd vote against various precompiled kernels with
> different combinations if it can be solved by modules.
>
> Or is there significant memory overhead for modules?
>
> Frantisek
>
> BTW, for precompiled NFS modules check this
> http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=25716&postcount=12
>
>

Sure modules would be fine too.     Are those pre-compiled modules
suitable for the kernel version that ships with maemo 2.1?

In any case, my main concern is that the procedure for using
scratchbox CPU transparency is currently severely hampered, and I have
little hope that an inexperienced developer will realize that the
documented procedure for enabling CPU transparency isn't working is
because by default the 770 kernel does not have NFS client support.   
This really needs to be fixed.

- -- Buck

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