[fedora-arm] FUDCon ARM related followup

[Peter Robinson]

> ----- 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.

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