[fedora-arm] Fedora ARM on OLPC

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> 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