On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Chris Tyler <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Let me know if I can help out with any of the patch maintenance. From the OLPC/Sugar side of things I (co)maintain pretty much all of the main sugar packages and can help out with most of the rest. Is there a list somewhere giving an overview of what needs change? Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
