<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>James and I looked a bit into the systemd issue last night & discovered the same. This was discussed at <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2014-May/048180.html">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2014-May/048180.html</a><br><br></div></div>A solution to solve this may be tricky. Currently no one may be available to look into getting newer Linux kernels working on XOs. And if a newer kernel was tweaked for XOs and brought in, extensive testing against multiple XO models & variants (wireless cards/cameras/memory chips/etc.) would be required.<br><br></div><div>Bringing in an older systemd with userspace firmware loading support might be easier in the short term, but could break RPMs dependent on newer systemd versions.<br><br></div><div>I don't know what resources OLPC has internally at the moment, but this may be beyond what part-time volunteers can do, especially if support is desired for XO models which OLPC no longer sells.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Dennis Gilmore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennis@ausil.us" target="_blank">dennis@ausil.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Saturday, April 25, 2015 10:36:49 PM Peter Robinson wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <<a href="mailto:samuel@greenfeld.org">samuel@greenfeld.org</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
> > At James' suggestion I looked a bit into a Fedora 22 beta build. I have<br>
> > found the following problems so far getting the RPM dependencies worked<br>
> > out:<br>
> ><br>
> > olpc-library needs to depend on python-jinja2, not python-jinja. The<br>
> > olpc-library RPM also was removed from Fedora, perhaps due to lack of<br>
> > changes & abandonment.<br>
><br>
> Likely, I didn't even know it existed.<br>
><br>
> > totem-mozplugin no longer exists and was intentionally removed. Given<br>
> > Firefox supports various media codecs internally this might not be a<br>
> > problem for it (apart for vmeta?); but I don't know what webkit-based<br>
> > Browse uses for media players.<br>
><br>
> Gstreamer based as well so I don't see any major issue there except if<br>
> vmeta doesn't support gstreamer 1.0<br>
><br>
> > xorg-x11-drv-keyboard and -mouse have been replaced by<br>
> > xorg-x11-drv-libinput. See<br>
> > <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg</a><br>
><br>
> Works fine on SoaS, although I think there might be a need to migrate<br>
> Control Panel bits, I did send an email about it some time ago to<br>
> devel@<br>
><br>
> > 14.1.0 has custom F20 systemd binaries, but I am having trouble finding<br>
> > information as to why. If they have relevant changes they need to be<br>
> > ported to F22 if not already present because using the F20 systemd<br>
> > binaries breaks all sorts of library dependencies.<br>
><br>
> The reason is due to changes in firmware loading changes in the kernel<br>
> and the fact the XO kernels haven't been rebased to something more<br>
> modern than 3.0+<br>
><br>
> > Patches have been written for the first three that I could submit.<br>
> ><br>
> > We need to come up with a clear direction as to what volunteers and/or<br>
> > OLPC<br>
> > want & would actually use for updated XO builds. I only have the time to<br>
> > focus on one set of images.<br>
><br>
> I can help on anything needed that's in Fedora in terms of adding<br>
> patches there so you don't need to fork but similarly I don't have<br>
> much time.<br>
<br>
</div></div>with Fedora.NEXT we may be able to look at making OLPC builds be an official<br>
part of Fedora, tirckiest bit I think would be the kernel. Long term I think<br>
it would be good for both OLPC and Fedora for this to happen.<br>
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