[fedora-arm] Fedora ARM on OLPC

[Chris Tyler]

On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:13 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: 
> > 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.
> 
> Would it help if we bought some Sheevaplugs, put them online as koji
> builders and gave access to Fedora developers?  That sounds like
> something we could do.

Thanks for the offer, but not sure it would help: GlobalScale is
backlogged on the production of both SheevaPlugs and GuruPlugs, so I
doubt a new order would arrive any earlier than the 20 units already
coming -- plus the local builders are connected directly to the hub by
GigE. (Update today: GlobalScale says the plugs will ship the last week
of June).

> Oh, and has anyone experimented to see whether qemu-arm on a fast x86
> box with lots of RAM performs faster compiles than a SheevaPlug?

We used qemu-system-arm to do initial feasibility testing last semester.
On a decent Intel box, it runs at about 10% of the speed of a
Sheeva/Guru when executing build tasks.

> > Two things would be really helpful:
>    > 
>    > - Point us to a list of packages you are using in your Remix, so
>    > we can put priority on those as we triage build failures.
> 
> Sure.  Here's the list, we're currently on F11:
> 
> http://build.laptop.org/10.2.0/os125/os125.packages.txt

Perfect, thanks! Looks like there are a few dozen packages you use that
are missing in F12 ARM.

-Chris