[fedora-arm] New Packages and Policy Questions

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> Andy Green wrote:
>  > On 01/13/11 21:45, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>  >
>  >> The package in question won't compile at all on F13, it seems:
>  >>
>  >> # rpmbuild --rebuild xorg-x11-server-1.6.1.901-1.fc11.src.rpm
>  >
>  > I don't know what the actual problem is from the error, but are all the
>  > dependencies in that filesystem also f11-vintage?  If everything else
>  > down /usr/include is f13-vintage, it's quite possible f11 sources or
>  > spec might choke on considerably newer dependent includes.
>
> Most of the system is the F13 rawhide. It's yum updated from the F12
> release since an awful lot in the F13 alpha is still missing or broken
> (e.g. firefox). So there are still a number of F12 vintage packages that
> aren't in the koji repository yet.
>
> Interestingly, F11 libxinerama packages that contain the headers where
> the compile breaks don't even include those header files.

fbdev works fine for me for the AC100, I don't think its accelerated
but it auto detects and just works, not had enough time to play with
it further and see what works and what doesn't.

>  > What're you trying to achieve by recooking f11 xorg server on f13? Maybe
>  > there's a different way to come at your overall goal.
>
> I very much doubt it. The machine I'm working on is a Toshiba AC100. The
> only kernel available for it with working keyboard/mouse support is
> 2.6.29 provided by Toshiba as part of the open source code they wrote
> for Android (the machine comes pre-loaded with Android). Unfortunately,
> Toshiba have in their infinite wisdom decided to put the keyboard and
> mouse behind proprietary interfaces, rather than USB HID (the machine
> does have full featured master and slave USB, which makes the decision
> particularly retarded). The drivers haven't yet been ported to later
> kernels.

Interesting, I'm looking at this closer as I have one of these devices
myself. The keyboard/mouse reports its attached to the old style ps2
keyboard/mouse interfaces.

> Further, the only way to eccelerated graphics on it is using the nvidia
> closed source tegra xorg driver. Since only 2.6.29 kernel works, only
> the tegra driver that is compatible with the interface of the kernel
> module for 2.6.29 works. That driver is sufficiently old that it is
> based on the xorg ABI from version 1.6.x, i.e. of the F11 vintage.

Works fine with the fbdev on the 2.6.29 kernel using the F-13 and the
fbdev X driver. In the 2.6.37 and already pending for the .38 series
there's been a lot of tegra drivers make it to the mainline kernel so
it will be interesting to see what's missing / remaining / different
on the toshiba side of development.

> That means that the only way to get accelerated drivers is using the
> 2.6.29 kernel and Xorg 1.6. Xorg binaries from F11 require libssl.so.8
> which means openssl 0.9.8k. F11 xorg src.rpm won't build on F12/F13, as
> explained earlier. I put just the three libraries it depends on in the
> relevant places, and that works fine, but by far the easiest way to
> solve this problem would be using an openssl098k compatibility package.

I suspect until some can fix it you'll need to deal with it yourself.
0.9.8k suffers from numerous vulnerabilities and its not something as
a result that would get into mainline fedora. Fedora doesn't promote
propriety closed source drivers so its extremely unlikely they'll add
an old version of a library to support a closed source binary driver.

Peter