[fedora-arm] FUDCon ARM related followup

[Sean Omalley]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: arm at lists.fedoraproject.org
> 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 at wolff.to> wrote:
>>  On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 23:56:49 -0500,
>>    Jonathan Masters <jcm at redhat.com> 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.