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