Re: [olpc-software] SDK on other linux distributions (or OSes)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:01 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm thinking on installing the SDK for playing a little and see what 
> has been done, but don't currently have a Fedora Core system.
> 
> Should I bother to try to put the SDK to work on Ubuntu, or it's better 
> to install Fedora Core 4?

The Qemu images should work fine on any other system that can run qemu,
but there may be patches that qemu and/or the kernel needs to reliably
run things like jffs2 and other bits.  AFAIU, there is also some
trickiness WRT compilation of qemu as well.

So; while nothing (nor should anything) prevent the image from running
on other distributions, you probably need to have a fairly recent
version of qemu and a fairly recent linux kernel.

Dan Berrange or David Zeuthen likely know more specifics...

Dan