[okl4-developer] OKLinux on x86

[Henning Schild]

Hello.

I am interested in OKLinux and wanted to try it. I like the
build system which generates images without the need to configure
anything. However all the images it generated for x86 could only be
used in qemu but not on real machines.
The boot process hangs when OKLinux is about to start the init process.

...
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> vserial: init done (handle: 0, owner: 18001, mask: 2)
> L

I tried a PentiumD, PhenomX4 and to lock out MP problems i also tried
a P2. The problem is not specific to one release. I used all x86
releases i could find (2.1, 2.1.1-fix.7 and 2.1.1-patch.9), none of them
worked.

I guess the problem is somehow related to missing interrupts in
oklinux. Using the releases in qemu seems to work fine in the first
place but working with it is quite hard since a lot of
keystrokes are missed.

I applied this patch to all the releases in order to build them
 http://lists.okl4.org/pipermail/developer/2008-October/001834.html

OKL4 obviously has its focus on ARM, i still hope anyone is using it on
x86 and can assist me.

regards,
Henning Schild