From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <33428f89a838accd212b187998d20cbe@plan9.bell-labs.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:35:27 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Inferno on OLPC? (was Re: [9fans] *poof*) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6bd508d2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 One of the interesting things to come out of the excellent presentation at Usenix was that there are people out there who know things like how much power you can get out of a child at various ages, etc. How many 8-year old children == 1 pit pony? We could work out how long and how many children it would take to compile Linux on this maybe by starting with the time and power taken to compile it on some known machine. On Fri Jun 16 09:30:48 EDT 2006, ericvh@gmail.com wrote: > On 6/16/06, rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > > > The other issue is that, evidently, you can't build inferno under inferno. > > > > are there sufficient resources on the OLPC to build (say) Linux inside Linux? > > > > The right question is, at 10-15W per child, how long will it take a > child with a crank to power a full Linux build.... > > Of course, no local disk may also be a factor there.... > > -eric