I'm wondering if it would be possible to get ReactOS to boot on an OLPC laptop.
Early versions of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, like the XO-1, used AMD-based processors but had open firmware in lieu of traditional BIOS. OLPC laptops are fairly resource constrained little machines: CPU 400 MHz and RAM 512MB, and 1GB of on-board NAND for storage.
Is it possible to get FreeLoader to actually bring ReactOS up on such a system?
Booting ReactOS on an OLPC XO-1 Laptop?
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Re: Booting ReactOS on an OLPC XO-1 Laptop?
As far as I know, Alexey Bragin had some experiments with OLPC and ReactOS - there is a separate branch in repository:
https://github.com/reactos/reactos/commits/olpc
But it's very outdated and might not work.
https://github.com/reactos/reactos/commits/olpc
But it's very outdated and might not work.
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Re: Booting ReactOS on an OLPC XO-1 Laptop?
I'm currently refurbishing two of them. Once I get them back in working shape I should give that patch a try. Thank you for the link! Hopefully I can merge it into a current copy Freeldr.
I should note, with a special USB<-->Header console cable it's possible to watch the entire boot process of the device from the beginning. It's even possible to get a Forth prompt and play around with the open firmware settings at that point via the console.
Is anyone else interested? I don't have much experience with C — I'm a Bash and Python guy — but I can log output, troubleshoot and make small source code edits to try to move things along.
I should note, with a special USB<-->Header console cable it's possible to watch the entire boot process of the device from the beginning. It's even possible to get a Forth prompt and play around with the open firmware settings at that point via the console.
Is anyone else interested? I don't have much experience with C — I'm a Bash and Python guy — but I can log output, troubleshoot and make small source code edits to try to move things along.
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Re: Booting ReactOS on an OLPC XO-1 Laptop?
Would be nice to have a debug log from a recent nightly build with OLPC patches applied.
I also created an article on wiki regarding OLPC XO-1 port: https://reactos.org/wiki/OLPC
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