On Jun 28, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:11 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com > <rihowa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Daniel Drake 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. >> >> There is no CentOS for ARM. It is not even on the horizon yet. On the other >> hand rpmfusion has recently expressed interest in building for the 2 ARM >> archs supported by Fedora. > > There's no CentOS for ARM because there is no EL for ARM, there's is a > project attempting to achieve a EL6 clone but IMO it's a waste of time > as it can only support armv5tel because the compiler and tool chain in > EL6 doesn't even know hardfp exists. > > rpmfusion was planning on adding ARM support when they move to koji > from their previous (current?) build platform. Not sure of the current > status of that. > >> I have been targeting F17 for ARM with an eye to F18 for ARM which may >> make the cut to become a primary architecture. > > It's unlikely at this point in time that ARM will become primary arch > in the F-18 timeframe simply due to one of the big blockers is decent > build hardware and while it should be available "soon" it's not going > to be enough time to deal with that. At this point in time F-19 is > much more likely. > > Ultimately any packages or changes needed for XS whether it's aimed at > CentOS/EPEL or Fedora whether it be on x86 or ARM should aim to > getting the changes into mainline Fedora which means if it's in > mainline it will be build on ARM whether ARM is primary or secondary > arch. It generally makes the maintenance of the packages easier and > more straight forward especially if it's a change/enhancement to > existing packages as the changes evolve when the main package evolves. That has been my goal...to promote that idea. One question is should olpc-bios be upstreamed? I am investigating a different approach to what has been taken ejabbered in the past with regard to patching and building a completely different one for the XS to provide needed behavior. It involves learning a "little" erlang.
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