Massive kudos for everything :) Keep up the great work and keep us up to date on those ARM developments.
Best regards, Tiago On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Now that the 10.1.1 release for XO-1.5 is out, it's a good time to > talk about OLPC's software strategy for the future. We've got a few > announcements to make: > > XO-1: > ===== > > OLPC wasn't planning to make a Fedora 11 release of the XO-1 OS, but > a group of volunteers including Steven Parrish, Bernie Innocenti, > Paraguay Educa and Daniel Drake stepped up and produced Fedora 11 XO-1 > builds that follow the OLPC 10.1.1 work. I'm happy to announce that > we're planning on releasing an OLPC-signed version of that work, and > that this release will happen alongside the next XO-1.5 point release > in the coming weeks. So, OLPC release 10.1.2 will be available for > both XO-1 and XO-1.5 at the same time, and will contain Sugar 0.84, > GNOME 2.26 and Fedora 11. We think that offering this fully > interoperable software stack between XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops will > greatly aid deployments, and we're very thankful to everyone who has > enabled us to be able to turn this XO-1 work into a supported release! > > To prepare for this XO-1 release, we've started working on fixing > some of the remaining bugs in the community F11/XO-1 builds. Paul Fox > recently solved a problem with suspend/resume and wifi in the F11/XO-1 > kernel, which was the largest blocker for a supported release. We'll > continue to work on the remaining bugs, particularly the ones that > OLPC is uniquely positioned to help with. > > The first development builds for this release will be published later > this week. > > XO-1.5: > ======= > > We'll be continuing to work on XO-1.5 improvements, incorporating > fixes to the "Known Problems" section of the 10.1.1 release notes¹ > into the 10.1.2 release. > > XO-1.75 and beyond: > =================== > > XO-1.75 software development is underway. Today we're announcing > that we're planning on using Fedora as the base distribution for the > XO-1.75. This wasn't an obvious decision -- ARM is not a release > architecture in Fedora, and so we're committing to help out with that > port. Our reasons for choosing Fedora even though ARM work is needed > were that we don't want to force our deployments to learn a new > distribution and re-write any customizations they've written, we want > to reuse the packaging work that's already been done in Fedora for > OLPC and Sugar packages, and we want to continue our collaboration > with the Fedora community who we're getting to know and work with > well. > > We've started to help with Fedora ARM by adding five new build > machines (lent to OLPC by Marvell; thanks!) to the Fedora ARM koji > build farm, and we have Fedora 12 and Sugar 0.86 running on early 1.75 > development boards. We'd prefer to use Fedora 13 for the XO-1.75, but > it hasn't been built for ARM yet -- if anyone's interested in helping > out with this or other Fedora ARM work, please check out the Fedora > ARM page on the Fedora Wiki². We're also interested in hiring ARM and > Fedora developers to help with this; if you're interested in learning > more, please send an e-mail to jobs-engineer...@laptop.org. > > We'll also be continuing to use Open Firmware on the XO-1.75, and > Mitch Bradley has an ARM port of OFW running on our development boards > already. > > EC-1.75 open source EC code: > ============================ > > OLPC is proud to announce that the XO-1.75 embedded controller will > have an open codebase (with a small exception, see below). After much > behind-the-scenes effort, EnE has agreed to provide us with a public > version of the KB3930 datasheet and is allowing our new code to be > made public. > > The code is not available yet due to a few chunks of proprietary code > that need to be purged and some other reformatting. A much more > detailed announcement will be provided once the new code is pushed to > a public repository. The code will be licensed under the GPL with a > special exception for OLPC use. > > The exception is because EnE has not released the low-level details on > the PS/2 interface in the KB3930, so there will be some code that is > not available -- relative to the codebase this is a very small amount > of code. The GPL licensing exception will allow for linking against > this closed code. We're going to investigate ways to move away from > this code in the future. (As far as we're aware, this will make the > XO-1.75 the first laptop with open embedded controller code!) > > Multi-touch Sugar: > ================== > > We've begun working on modifications to Sugar to enable touchscreen > and multitouch use (the XO-1.75 will have a touchscreen, as will > future OLPC tablets based on its design), and we'll continue to do so. > The first outcome from this work is Sayamindu Dasgupta's port of the > Meego Virtual Keyboard³ to Sugar -- you can see a screencast of it in > action here⁴. > > It's an exciting time for software development at OLPC. Many thanks > for all of your support and efforts! > > - Chris, on behalf of the OLPC Engineering team. > > Footnotes: > ¹: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.1 > ²: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM > ³: http://gitorious.org/fvkbd > ⁴: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar_vkbd_multi.ogv > -- > Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> > One Laptop Per Child > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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