On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@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 > > On 09/17/2017 05:00 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: >> >> Send Devel mailing list submissions to >> devel@lists.laptop.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> devel-ow...@lists.laptop.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 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) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 23:28:14 -0400 >> From: Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> >> To: OLPC Devel <devel@lists.laptop.org> >> Subject: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels >> Message-ID: >> >> <ca+caqjpkzng8rhjhzbnezadni2fhwnbohjr5gf9kjw3xkdz...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> 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. >> >> --- >> SJG >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20170916/6203a1b6/attachment-0001.html> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:14:00 +0100 >> From: Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> >> To: Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> >> Cc: OLPC Devel <devel@lists.laptop.org> >> Subject: Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels >> Message-ID: >> >> <CALeDE9NdU9ib8mz5SmLPC8uUec-ydekkjrEj=g5obb2cafb...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@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. >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:45:59 +0200 >> From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> >> To: Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> >> Cc: OLPC Devel <devel@lists.laptop.org> >> Subject: Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels >> Message-ID: <87vakheb3l....@web.de> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> >> Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel