<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Jon Nettleton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon.nettleton@gmail.com">jon.nettleton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> 2) FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) is dealing with the<br>
> issue upstream [1][2] in Fedora with the view of getting it fixed<br>
> upstream for F-14 or at the very least clarified. It was agreed in<br>
> F-12 that the Geode LX would be supported and that decision wasn't<br>
> discussed otherwise. Please add to the conversation on the ticket or<br>
> the list. It might be worth seeing the outcome of this before we go<br>
> and reinvent the wheel again.<br>
<br>
</div>I think sitting around and waiting to see the outcome of a very<br>
unclear situation is possibly disastrous. Why not hash out a few<br>
ideas while there is still wiggle room in the decision making process?<br>
The way I see it we have a few uncertainties right now.<br>
<br>
1) Will there be actual support for the Geode processor in F14? The<br>
official stance is yes, however after reading that thread there seems<br>
to be some dissension in the ranks.<br>
<br>
2) If it is supported, what is the performance impact of using<br>
emulated instructions?<br>
<br>
3) Will this all get solidified in time-frame that gives OLPC a warm<br>
fuzzy feeling about basing their next release on F14?<br>
<br>
The way I see it, OLPC and SugarLabs need some automated performance<br>
testing to verify that using emulated instructions do not slow things<br>
down an unacceptable amount. Even for this testing to be done the<br>
patches and recompilation of at least core packages need to be done.<br>
We don't need all the bells and whistles but the short-list is kernel,<br>
glibc, gstreamer, xorg, alsa, python, sugar. Fedora's dev cycle is 6<br>
months so if it is going to take longer than 2 months ( of course this<br>
can be discussed ) it is probably worth the effort to scope out some<br>
alternative paths forward.<br>
<br>
I am at the point where I already need some GUI testing tools to move<br>
forward in my graphics card performance development. I will<br>
definitely need some help putting together use case scenarios. Anyone<br>
else have any time to work on this?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd sure love to see better graphics support on the XO 1.5. Not that I have free time "on a schedulle" but when I do find it, how can I help you?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Tiago</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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-Jon<br>
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