[Server-devel] ARM on XS -- how can I integrate my work?

[George Hunt]

Thanks Daniel for the reality check.  I often seem to get caught up in
wanting to learn about something without seeing the larger context.

I was looking at the function per watt, and not seeing the
development/testing/support costs involved in adding another distribution.

In retrospect, I was also ignoring another fact, that the fitpci has a dual
core atom processor that draws 7 watts just like the ARM Trimslice -- ARM
is not really necessary to achieve low power school serving.

All is not lost however, I enjoyed learning about ARM, and packaging rpms
-- skills I may find useful.

George

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:14 AM, George Hunt <georgejhunt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm not done yet, but I've been making progress on porting XS code to
> ARM by
> > making modifications to DSD's  XS-0.7.  Upon his suggestion, I have been
> > basing my work on the srpms posted at
> > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/stable/olpc/xs-0.7/source/.
> >
> > Now that I've got some of the services running, I'm wondering how to
> > contribute to the XS codebase.  What I'd prefer is to contribute deltas
> from
> > XS-0.7 that use `uname -p` to enable the appropriate path through the
> > startup scripts.
>
> That kind of approach would suggest supporting both CentOS and F17+.
> I'm not sure if thats the direction we'd want to go - supporting 2
> platforms has its costs. It might be preferred to do a full migration
> to F17. You'll need clarification from this from Martin, who's away
> until next month.
>
> > Earlier, I started using the git sources at dev.laptop.org, and I
> discovered
> > that there did not appear to be an obvious set of git repos,
> corresponding
> > to XS-0.7. Paths for repos that had the most recent changes included:
> >
> > /packages/
> > /projects/
> > /bios-crypto/
> > /users/martin/
> >
> > Any suggestions on how we should proceed?
>
> I think you just need to sit down and hunt these down. It shouldn't
> take you long, using version numbers found in the most recent RPM
> packages, etc.
>
> Many of the XS component webpages have links to the git repo, e.g.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-rsync
>
> If there are ones that don't, maybe you can add the links.
>
> And if you really get stuck, you can ask for help for a particular package.
>
> Daniel
>
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