Adobe Flash for XO-4 and XO-1.75

Roshan Karki roshan at olenepal.org
Wed Feb 20 00:28:53 EST 2013


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org>wrote:

> To the best of my knowledge, the XO-1.75 and XO-4 have no hardware-level
> x86 compatibility.  They use processors that use the ARM architecture.
>
> If you absolutely need x86 support on these platforms and cannot
> recompile/rebuild code, the qemu platform might be able to help.
>

Interesting. Do you know if there has been any work on this?


>
> In the past OLPC has worked with deployments to get their custom
> activities updated to be more platform independent.  In general most
> applications available in Fedora are now compiled for ARM automatically as
> well.
>
> Adobe Flash support is available for 11.3.1 and 12.1.0 for XO-1.75 (along
> with accelerated video playback in the latter) but I would not be the
> person to know their licensing.  Contact whomever you are working with at
> OLPC (for sales/deployment/etc.) for details.
>

So there has already been some deployment with XO-1.75? I'll try to talk
about this with responsible person. I hope they won't charge for the
license though.


>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Roshan Karki <roshan at olenepal.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but just to confirm is there Adobe
>> Flash support for either XO-4 or XO-1.75? Also is there x86 compatible XO-4
>> or XO-1.75 in production?
>>
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