Could a small external battery pak, like we see so many of these days, be used
to power an XO? You would need a suitable cable.
Caryl
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> On Jun 3, 2016, at 11:43 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote:
>> Sam, I am eager to learn what you personally think the date should be :)
>
> My personal answer (at least in past private discussions) has been to end
> support sometime in 2020.
>
> The logic behind that being:
> OLPC no longer makes any batteries compatible with the XO-1 (or any unit
> prior to the XO-4). By 2020 the existing battery stock for older XOs should
> be pretty much dead.
>
> It may be possible to convince Paul Fox or someone to write "compatible"
> embedded controller firmware which charges multiple types of batteries
> sub-optimally given the limited EC flash space available. But that would
> require the more general availability of replacement batteries.
>
> Support for i586 CPUs is starting to leave mainline Linux distributions.
> Note Debian's recent announcement about processors supported in Jessie but
> not Stretch.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/msg00001.html {The AMD
> Geode LX in XO-1's is a MediaGX derivative}
>
> The somewhat odd processor in XO-1s has had a history of throwing illegal
> instruction errors whenever someone compiled a library incorrectly, or a
> just-in-time compiler took advantage of an instruction the CPU lacked.
>
> Other Linux distributions such as RHEL/CentOS have gone 64-bit only.
>
> Experiments have been made, but no big push has been made to update XOs
> beyond Fedora 18, which hit end-of-life in early 2014. This requires kernel
> work to fix upstreamed drivers (XO-1 & 1.5) & more kernel work to upstream &
> port non-upstreamed drivers (XO-1.75 & 4).
>
> The alternative is to port an older systemd forward; potentially an equally
> annoying headache.
>
> By 2020 one would hope Sugar is targeting the latest & most appropriate
> platform of the day, and not restricting itself to capabilities invented 15
> years ago.
>
>
>> Fair enough. I've schedule a chat with Leah at OLPC in a couple of weeks,
>> and I'll keep you all posted on what I can find out.
>
> If there is a reason to go to OLPC's Miami office again I don't have an issue
> with that. I was there in October, and as far as I know I'm still on good
> terms with them.
>
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