OLPC's XO-1.5 software plan.

[Peter Robinson]

Oh, and the other query I forgot to add was about moving to 802.11s
for the mesh networking?

Peter

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> This is great news!
>
> A couple of queries about this.
>
> What are the plans with getting existing kernel patches upstream?
>
> What is the status of rainbow within this? Of the difference between
> olpc-4 and mainline packages, patches to various packages for rainbow
> support are now by far the biggest part of the remaining difference.
>
> Also for the initrd, is dracut of use in that regard? [1][2]
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dracut
> [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/317793/
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
>> We have some good news:  OLPC has decided to base its software release
>> for the new XO-1.5 laptop on Fedora 11.  Unlike previous releases, we
>> plan to use a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving
>> users the option to switch into a standard GNOME install instead.
>> (This will mostly be useful for older kids in high school.)
>>
>> I'm particularly happy about this plan because it will allow us to
>> catch up with the awesome work present in the Sugar community's most
>> recent release, Sugar 0.84, as well as merging the latest Fedora work
>> and including GNOME into the mix for the first time.  The new machines
>> will have 1GB of RAM and 4GB of flash, so we have enough room for both
>> environments at once.
>>
>> We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other
>> base packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already,
>> including Sugar; in fact, we already have an F11+Sugar+GNOME build
>> for the XO-1 using pure Fedora packages.  That build will get better
>> as a result of this work (although OLPC's focus will be on getting
>> the XO-1.5 running) and it will form the basis for the XO-1.5 build.
>>
>> If you're interested in contributing, we'd certainly love your help,
>> and you can find us on the fedora-olpc mailing list¹, and freenode
>> IRC's #fedora-olpc channel.  Our existing F11 build images for the
>> XO-1 are here², and we'll soon begin publishing images for the XO-1.5
>> too.  XO-1.5 beta machines will start to be manufactured over the next
>> few months, and will be available to contributors as part of our
>> Contributors Program³ once the hardware's up and running.
>>
>> Finally, thanks are due to the volunteer Fedora packagers and testers
>> who helped us get to the point of being able to commit to Fedora 11
>> for this new build, in particular: Fabian Affolter, Kushal Das, Greg
>> DeKoenigsberg, Martin Dengler, Scott Douglass, Sebastian Dziallas,
>> Mikus Grinbergs, Bryan Kearney, Gary C. Martin, Steven M. Parrish,
>> and Peter Robinson.  Thanks!
>>
>> - Chris, for the OLPC techteam.
>>
>> ¹:  http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list
>> ²:  http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/
>> ³:  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program
>>
>> --
>> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
>>
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