Devel Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
> 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.

Why don't you actually read the thread you're replying to. Userspace
will be fine, needs kernel work as they need a newer kernel.

The ARM XOs could actually as of Fedora 26 run with a completely open
userspace with the entaviv kernel if someone does the work for those
devices to boot on a current kernel. In theory the XO 1.75 would just
need a devicetree plus driver upstreaming. The 1.5 might work OOTB but
there are some drivers that were never upstreamed.

Peter

> Tony
>
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>>     1. Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels (Samuel Greenfeld)
>>     2. Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels (Peter Robinson)
>>     3. Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels
>>        (Arne Babenhauserheide)
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>> Message: 1
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
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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>
>> Cc: OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>
>> 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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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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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
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