OLPC's XO-1.5 software plan.

[Bobby Powers]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge:
>
> 2009/5/16 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
>> What are the plans with getting existing kernel patches upstream?
>
> Deepak is working on it, and me and Chris agree that getting *all*
> XO-1.5 kernel stuff upstream early on should be a sensible and
> achievable goal. But time will tell, and it seems certain that we'll
> be using a forked kernel tree during development.
>
>> 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.
>
> We'll start without it, since thats how Fedora 11 will ship. It could
> possibly be added later, based on time and other things... but if we
> have to fork a lot of packages, that would be a significant vote
> against it.
>
>> Also for the initrd, is dracut of use in that regard? [1][2]
>
> We discussed this already, and agreed in principle that it would be a
> good target for upstreaming OLPC's antitheft stuff... but Chris was
> loosely under the belief that dracut isn't being developed further. Is
> that correct?

I found git://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/dracut from:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dracut

While development seemed to have stalled for a while, there's been
more than a dozen commits in the past week.

bp

>> Oh, and the other query I forgot to add was about moving to 802.11s for the mesh networking?
>
> I haven't heard any plans along these lines.
>
> Daniel
>
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