Has anyone tested a current fedora release on an XO model? It would seem
reasonable to install Fedora with the gnome desktop independent of Sugar
as a starting point.
Tony
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It has been a few years (Fedora 18) since the original XO Laptop series has
had any sort of major Operating System update.
In order to support newer versions of Systemd, features found in newer
versions of the Linux kernel are required. And from limited exploratory
work done years ago, the XO-1 mesh networking & XO-1.5 Camera drivers may
need fixing even though they are in upstream kernels.
Are there any low-level kernel developers out there interested in porting
XO laptops (both x86 & ARM) to a Linux 4.x kernel or a later 3.x kernel so
they can be used with newer Linux distributions? Or should we presume that
all public XO laptop development (apart from minor patching) is officially
dead at this point?
I presume hardware can be made available provided someone has the interest.
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From: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
To: Samuel Greenfeld <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels
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On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
It has been a few years (Fedora 18) since the original XO Laptop series has
had any sort of major Operating System update.
In order to support newer versions of Systemd, features found in newer
versions of the Linux kernel are required. And from limited exploratory
work done years ago, the XO-1 mesh networking & XO-1.5 Camera drivers may
need fixing even though they are in upstream kernels.
Are there any low-level kernel developers out there interested in porting XO
laptops (both x86 & ARM) to a Linux 4.x kernel or a later 3.x kernel so they
can be used with newer Linux distributions? Or should we presume that all
public XO laptop development (apart from minor patching) is officially dead
at this point?
I presume hardware can be made available provided someone has the interest.
I would love to see someone get it all upstream so we could just
support them in vanilla Fedora. I can send HW but unfortunately I
don't have much time (or ability) to get these bits upstream.
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:45:59 +0200
From: Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]>
To: Samuel Greenfeld <[email protected]>
Cc: OLPC Devel <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels
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Samuel Greenfeld <[email protected]> writes:
Are there any low-level kernel developers out there interested in porting
XO laptops (both x86 & ARM) to a Linux 4.x kernel or a later 3.x kernel so
they can be used with newer Linux distributions? Or should we presume that
all public XO laptop development (apart from minor patching) is officially
dead at this point?
I am still running an XO-1 with Gentoo (the gentooxo website sadly died,
but I still use what it provided), but I did not get the newer kernels
to run, so I’m currently missing out on many features (including sound).
I’d be willing to try again if I could prod someones brain when I hit
roadblocks. I’m not experienced in low-level kernel development, but
depending on the problems, perspiration might be able to supplant some
missing experience :-)
Best wishes,
Arne
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