[Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.84-on-a-XO

[Martin Dengler]

Adam,

I will help, and if we're lucky some of the sugarlabs experts will
dive in as well.  It'd be great to get more testers.

One thing we need to work on fine-tuning is how cjb's rawhide-xo and
SoaS-on-XO relate.  Both groups are in very close contact but I think
things are still evolving (of course nobody wants to duplicate work,
but there's a lot to consider).

Martin

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:09:04AM -0400, Adam Holt wrote:
> If someone can help me document this within  
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ I'll help you out every step of  
> the way -- if we can make a stable/supportable process :)
> --A!
>
>
> Subject: 	Re: [Olpc-uk] OLPC UK Library Update 20090505
> Date: 	Thu, 7 May 2009 08:58:44 +0100
> From: 	Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> To: 	Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>
> CC: 	olpc-uk at lists.laptop.org, holt at laptop.org
>
>
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>> Martin Dengler schrieb:
>>> - All laptops have developer keys, have been flashed to latest
>>>   firmware (Q2E41), and have the latest Sugar-on-a-Stick build
>>>   (Rawhide/Fedora 11 + OLPC kernel) installed.
>>
>> Interesting, any guides as to how that's done?
>
> Yes - there are a few guides that involve the "livecd-iso-to-xo"
> script.  One just runs that on an iso and it spits out a jffs2 image
> suitable for copy-nand'ing on to the XO.  Of course the
> livecd-iso-to-disk can be used to make an SD card for booting off of
> if one doesn't want to overwrite the NAND.
>
>> It was my understanding that Sugar-on-a-Stick isn't expected to run
>> well on the XO before F12 gets released in autumn. But it looks like
>> I missed something here...
>
> You haven't missed anything - I have my own definition of "well":
>
> "working well [enough for the Libary]" means:
>
> 1) having a version of Sugar and activities such that patches will be
>   trivial to review and accept
>
> 2) having working wireless, power management, XO keys (most), dcon
>   drivers
>
> 3) having development tools like pylint and git pre-installed
>
> 4) sound and mesh networking not working
>
> I'm not recommending it for deployments/pilots.  But it's coming along
> quite well for developer use.
>
>> Thanks,
>> Christoph
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> Subject: 	Re: [Olpc-uk] OLPC UK Library Update 20090505
> Date: 	Thu, 7 May 2009 09:03:14 +0100
> From: 	Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> To: 	Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> CC: 	Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>,  
> olpc-uk at lists.laptop.org, holt at laptop.org
>
>
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:59:49AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > >> - All laptops have developer keys, have been flashed to latest
> > >>   firmware (Q2E41), and have the latest Sugar-on-a-Stick build
> > >>   (Rawhide/Fedora 11 + OLPC kernel) installed.
> > >
> > > Interesting, any guides as to how that's done?
> > >
> > > It was my understanding that Sugar-on-a-Stick isn't expected to run  
> well
> > > on the XO before F12 gets released in autumn. But it looks like I  
> missed
> > > something here...
> >
> > It runs.... I think SoaS has a custom kernel with added patches for
> > camera/sound/suspend.
>
> SoaS is shipping with a standard F11/rawhide kernel. My custom
> version installs the latest OLPC kernel (older, but with the OLPC
> patches you mention).
>
> I was very heartened to hear on IRC two days ago that OLPC have a
> kernel hacker (dsaxena) starting in June (to work on Gen 1.5), and
> that one of the first thing on the todo list was to get the OLPC
> patches applying to the linus kernel.
>
> > Peter
>
> Martin
>
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