Re: Report from another try of running ostree

[Giovanni Campagna <scampa giovanni gmail com>]

2013/1/2 Colin Walters <walters verbum org>:
> On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 20:38 +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
>
>> After that I finally got it to boot - except that there was no GUI.
>> Turns out that the yocto kernel is missing the whole drm subsystem,
>> meaning that no HW acceleration is possible and X starts in vesa mode
>> with the shadow FB (at 1024x768). AFAIK, this is a known problem, and
>> Colin is working to prepare a better config for the gnome-ostree
>> kernel.
>
> Done:
>
> https://github.com/cgwalters/poky/commit/ce215dffd6e12371adb4bd5e8a943d83a7d4d5d8
>
> Works here when booted on my laptop and in qemu, but likely needs more
> refinement.  The kernel config options will be a bit of an ongoing
> maintenance burden, but hopefully not too much if we only rebase the
> kernel occasionally.
>

Awesome, thank you!
One question though: the config you chose is the rawhide config, which
builds a kernel with extremely slow debug options enabled. Was that on
purpose? If so, why? Or could we have a debug kernel for the -devel
tree and a normal one for -runtime?

Giovanni