On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 19:15 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > Recently OLPC announced that we're working on two new ARM devices -- > a laptop (XO-1.75) and tablet (XO-3), both running on Marvell's Armada > 610 (MMP2) SoC: > > http://blog.laptop.org/2010/05/27/xo3-marvell-and-olpc/ > > We're interested in shipping Fedora ARM on both devices, since we've > been using Fedora on our x86 laptops all along. Obviously, OLPC is a major target for the Fedora ARM effort :-) > I've got the Fedora 12 rootfs running on an MMP2 board already, but > we've got a few questions about how shipping Fedora ARM in a product > would work: > > * Since Fedora ARM isn't an official release or secondary architecture > yet, is it possible to ship a legal Fedora remix using its packages? As I understand it, ARM is a recognized SA, so it should be fine to ship a remix based on it. Here's the status of the Fedora ARM effort: The previous ARM build farm was decommissioned, and a new one is being built, with some corresponding team changes. The status right now is that the shipment of new build hardware (a farm of GuruPlugs) was delayed due to a design defect; a revised version of hardware is supposed to be shipped next week. In the interim, there are two builders available. dgilmore and PaulW are (as I understand it) bootstrapping the repos to prepare for using koji-shadow. (I'm away right now (teaching POSSE etc) but will rejoin the effort in early July). > * Which release would it make most sense for us to use? I know that > F13 isn't available yet, although I see that dgilmore's started some > F13 package builds in koji. Only the previous F12 binary packages are available now. However, I don't think it will be too long before we start pumping out F13 packages. The challenge is that the ARM patches for F12 didn't get committed upstream, so there's a backlog of package maintenance that needs attention. > * Do you think there's much of a chance that F14 could have ARM as > an official secondary architecture? The intention is to shadow the primary arch builds using Dennis' koji-shadow system, so eventually we'll have rawhide and releases fairly closely following the primary archs. So yes, F14 ARM will be there -- the question (and we'll understand the answer to this better over the next few months) is how much lag there will be between the primary and ARM secondary arch releases, and how complete the package set will be relative to the primary archs (for example, right now Mono doesn't appear to build on ARM, which knocks out the other packages that depend on Mono). > * Relatedly, what could we do to help that happen, and to help with > the port in general? Two things would be really helpful: - Point us to a list of packages you are using in your Remix, so we can put priority on those as we triage build failures. - When the time comes (soon!), help get the ARM patches upstream. This includes both packaging patches and source patches. -- Chris _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
