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 <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:14 AM, George Hunt <georgejh...@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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