[Sugar-devel] [Olpc-france] Demande d'information technique sur Sugar

[Aleksey Lim]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:34:03PM +0200, s.boutayeb at free.fr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Selon Elena of Valhalla <elena.valhalla at gmail.com>:
> 
> > 2009/10/9 Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>:
> > > Here's a question from France: can Sugar run over an ARM processor?
> > >
> > > Mathieu says Debian might do so.
> > >
> > > Any information appreciated.
> >
> > I'm working on OpenEmbedded recipes to be able to build sugar for
> > various devices, including many ARM based ones, but it's taking quite
> > some time; I can't say when it will be working seamlessy.
> >
> > Currently the best way to have sugar running will probably be using
> > debian, and of course there will be issues with binaries in the
> > activities.
> 
> Sugar does runs on other architecturs too: as on the Yeeloong and the Gdium
> laptops, both using an mips processor. Here, a Yeeloong launchs Sugar, however,
> du to dependencies issues, it's not yet usable. We are using the binaries
> provided by the official repositories. On could use the jhbuild method too.
> 
> On the Gdium, shipped with Mandriva, we are trying to achieve the same result,
> but the jhbuild process fails early.
> 
> As for the arm target, it appears to be a promissing platform, as a few arm
> notebooks/netbooks are announced in the next monts or are already available.
> Consequently, trying to port Sugar on those platforms will certainly be worth
> the effort.

I packaged 0.84 to CaixaMagica12 [1] wich is Mandriva2008 based distro,
had to backport bunch of packages [2]..

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Magalh%C3%A3es
[2] http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/magalhaes

-- 
Aleksey