----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] FUDCon ARM related followup
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 23:56:49 -0500,
>> Jonathan Masters <jcm(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> We had a number of conversations about how to involve more people in
>>> Fedora on ARM. We also had many other conversations that are being
> minuted
>>> on the wiki, with more notes and links to follow. Now is a great time
> to
>>> join arm@ and add your input.
>>
>>
>> Since a number of Fedora developers where given XO 1.75s last summer,
>> getting Fedora builds for those people might be a way to get more testing.
>> (Yeah, they mostly use Fedora stuff now, but they don't use a Fedora
>> kernel.)
>>
>> I have been testing OLPC builds, but that wipes my customizations, and
> I'd
>> rather do more normal Fedora testing with it.
>
> Fedora kernels don't support them because they're not all up stream
> and we don't have support for OFW even where their kernels are
> upstream. That being said you can use Fedora relatively easily while
> still doing an initial install with the XO image and getting XO kernel
> updates but still receiving standard Fedora updates and installing all
> the other standard Fedora stuff using yum. I documented it here:
>
>
http://nullr0ute.com/2012/09/using-fedora-on-your-shiny-new-olpc-xo/
It doesn't seem like OF would be that hard to support, given PPC and sparc both use
it, and it isn't -that- different then uBoot.
Probably not too hard to support but I believe PPC support is via
yaboot (or maybe now grub2) layered on top of OFW rather than directly
supporting OFW.
Peter