[fedora-arm] FUDCon ARM related followup

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> 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 <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ----- 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
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