[Bdi4emc-help] emc live cd

Sun Jan 29 13:49:24 CET 2006

Hi William

On Saturday 28 January 2006 22:39, William Baker wrote:
> It appears that a recent "Live CD" is not available?  Pages on the old
> web site seem to indicate that there is no interest in
> reviving/continuing it.

When Morphix (the base for the BDI-Live) switched to the 2.6 series kernels, 
unionfs had some bugs that were biting hard. In addition, EMC was not in a 
state where it would compile on a 2.6 kernel. Although a 2.4 kernel could 
have been used, there were numerous changes in the Morphix base module to 
support 2.6 kernels that would need to be "undone"..

Now that one branch of EMC compiles on a 2.6 kernel and unionfs appears to 
have stabilised, the time may be ripe for another build. One possibility is 
to hijack one of the Morphix nightly builds and insert an RTAI patched 
kernel. The remaining task of generating a main module would be fairly 
straight forward. There is probably a day or two worth of work involved 
compiling a patched kernel and matching RTAI & EMC modules, bulding of the 
ISO image can be pretty much automated... Testing and debugging could quite 
easily soak up several weeks of time.

Regards, Paul.

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