On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Always was done with yaboot. Do we know if OLPC will move to UEFI? I very much doubt it > Sent from my phone. Please excuse formatting and brevity. > > Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> >>> To: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 6:28 PM >>> Subject: Re: FUDCon ARM related followup >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 23:56:49 -0500, >>>> Jonathan Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> We had a number of conversations about how to involve more people in >>>>> Fedora on ARM. We also had many other conversations that are being >>> minuted >>>>> on the wiki, with more notes and links to follow. Now is a great time >>> to >>>>> join arm@ and add your input. >>>> >>>> >>>> Since a number of Fedora developers where given XO 1.75s last summer, >>>> getting Fedora builds for those people might be a way to get more testing. >>>> (Yeah, they mostly use Fedora stuff now, but they don't use a Fedora >>>> kernel.) >>>> >>>> I have been testing OLPC builds, but that wipes my customizations, and >>> I'd >>>> rather do more normal Fedora testing with it. >>> >>> Fedora kernels don't support them because they're not all up stream >>> and we don't have support for OFW even where their kernels are >>> upstream. That being said you can use Fedora relatively easily while >>> still doing an initial install with the XO image and getting XO kernel >>> updates but still receiving standard Fedora updates and installing all >>> the other standard Fedora stuff using yum. I documented it here: >>> >>> http://nullr0ute.com/2012/09/using-fedora-on-your-shiny-new-olpc-xo/ >> >> It doesn't seem like OF would be that hard to support, given PPC and sparc both use it, and it isn't -that- different then uBoot. > > Probably not too hard to support but I believe PPC support is via > yaboot (or maybe now grub2) layered on top of OFW rather than directly > supporting OFW. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
