Quoting Adam Borowski (2016-12-25 23:23:32) > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 06:06:12PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure they haven't produced XO-1s in close to a decade, and > > > that us what my packages are for. XO-1.5 and XO-4 were never > > > supported without additional hacks. > > > > > > That said, I can orphan the packages; I just don't see much point with > > > such old hardware and the lack of package users. > > > > I agree it makes sense to drop this package: Despite the hardware vendor > > still issueing software, we can no longer do so, because the XO-1 uses > > an X86 chipset is incompatible with our i686 libc and kernel, I believe > > (I haven't tested for quite some time, though - please correct me if > > wrong). > > XO-1 uses Geode LX which lacks just NOPL for full 686 ISA, and our version > of gas doesn't issue NOPL for this reason. > > It's possible there are other show stoppers, but I have no idea here.
Ah, interesting. Then there might be hope still. thanks! @Andres: Please don't drop the OLPC packages. I can adopt them and maintain them in the Sugar team (and will dust off my XO-1 laptops collecting dust in a shelf). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
