Devel Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

[Tony Anderson]

Has anyone tested a current fedora release on an XO model? It would seem 
reasonable to install Fedora with the gnome desktop independent of Sugar 
as a starting point.

Tony

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>     1. Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels (Samuel Greenfeld)
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>     3. Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels
>        (Arne Babenhauserheide)
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> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 23:28:14 -0400
> From: Samuel Greenfeld <samuel at greenfeld.org>
> To: OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Subject: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels
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> It has been a few years (Fedora 18) since the original XO Laptop series has
> had any sort of major Operating System update.
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> In order to support newer versions of Systemd, features found in newer
> versions of the Linux kernel are required.  And from limited exploratory
> work done years ago, the XO-1 mesh networking & XO-1.5 Camera drivers may
> need fixing even though they are in upstream kernels.
>
> Are there any low-level kernel developers out there interested in porting
> XO laptops (both x86 & ARM) to a Linux 4.x kernel or a later 3.x kernel so
> they can be used with newer Linux distributions?  Or should we presume that
> all public XO laptop development (apart from minor patching) is officially
> dead at this point?
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> I presume hardware can be made available provided someone has the interest.
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> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:14:00 +0100
> From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> To: Samuel Greenfeld <samuel at greenfeld.org>
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> Subject: Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels
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> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <samuel at greenfeld.org> wrote:
>> It has been a few years (Fedora 18) since the original XO Laptop series has
>> had any sort of major Operating System update.
>>
>> In order to support newer versions of Systemd, features found in newer
>> versions of the Linux kernel are required.  And from limited exploratory
>> work done years ago, the XO-1 mesh networking & XO-1.5 Camera drivers may
>> need fixing even though they are in upstream kernels.
>>
>> Are there any low-level kernel developers out there interested in porting XO
>> laptops (both x86 & ARM) to a Linux 4.x kernel or a later 3.x kernel so they
>> can be used with newer Linux distributions?  Or should we presume that all
>> public XO laptop development (apart from minor patching) is officially dead
>> at this point?
>>
>> I presume hardware can be made available provided someone has the interest.
> I would love to see someone get it all upstream so we could just
> support them in vanilla Fedora. I can send HW but unfortunately I
> don't have much time (or ability) to get these bits upstream.
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:45:59 +0200
> From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>
> To: Samuel Greenfeld <samuel at greenfeld.org>
> Cc: OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels
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> Samuel Greenfeld <samuel at greenfeld.org> writes:
>
>> Are there any low-level kernel developers out there interested in porting
>> XO laptops (both x86 & ARM) to a Linux 4.x kernel or a later 3.x kernel so
>> they can be used with newer Linux distributions?  Or should we presume that
>> all public XO laptop development (apart from minor patching) is officially
>> dead at this point?
> I am still running an XO-1 with Gentoo (the gentooxo website sadly died,
> but I still use what it provided), but I did not get the newer kernels
> to run, so I’m currently missing out on many features (including sound).
>
> I’d be willing to try again if I could prod someones brain when I hit
> roadblocks. I’m not experienced in low-level kernel development, but
> depending on the problems, perspiration might be able to supplant some
> missing experience :-)
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne