> ----- 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: [fedora-arm] 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
