[Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 23:12, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> El Tue, 25-05-2010 a las 19:16 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió:
>>
>>> Is F-11 still the base OS for this?
>>
>> Unfortunately, this build is still based on Fedora 11.
>>
>> Fedora 13 dropped support for the Geode processor, so it's not an
>> option. Upgrading to Fedora 12 would be possible, but there are unsolved
>> issues with the Geode video driver (jnettlet is working on it).
>
> That's not entirely true. The was no changes in CPU support from F-12
> to F-13. What has happened was a change in gcc which causes issues
> with F-13 on geode processors. There's a bit missing from gcc for
> geode support that would need to be added. dsd and cjb know more of
> the details.

I'm happy to hear this. F14 may bring interesting changes for the XO1,
can we hope that support for the Geode won't have been dropped by
then?

Thanks,

Tomeu

>> Considering the potential for hard to fix regressions, I felt that
>> upgrading to Fedora 12 was probably not worth the effort. Instead, I've
>> back-ported some useful things from Fedora 13: metacity-2.30,
>> xulrunner-1.9.2.3 and usb_modeswitch-1.1.2.
>>
>> Someone could try rebasing the builds on Fedora 12 in parallel with us.
>> If the result turns out to be very stable, we could consider switching.
>> All this would probably have happen before the first beta, so there's
>> not much time.
>
> If there's demand for it and its considered a 'good thing' I would
> consider pushing sugar 0.88 back to F-12. Not guaranteed, but its
> something that could be considered.
>
> Peter
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