Re: [fedora-arm] FUDCon ARM related followup

[Jon Masters]

Always was done with yaboot. Do we know if OLPC will move to UEFI?

FUDCon ARM related followup

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jon Masters  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  wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Peter Robinson 
> > > To: Development discussions related to Fedora 
> > > Cc: [e-mail]
> > > 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  wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 23:56:49 -0500,
> > > >    Jonathan Masters  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
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