View source for XS Porting to ARM

OLPC-SF Project<br />
Lead R. Howard<br />
Goal is to create an XS that runs on low power consumption system.
Chosen test target is an OpenRd Client with a low power consumption 2.5 " internal SATA drive.  Uses approximately 5 watts. <br /> OpenRD client uses Marvell Kirkwood SOC.<br />

Hardware received middle of July 2009. Waiting for Fedora 11 ARM port and drivers to be ready for device before starting on XS work.<br />
Needed bits have not been added to Kernel so full functionality of board is not available.<br />
October 2010 - finally the Kernel patches have landed in linux-next. Git cloned kernel next 2.6.36 rc?  and built it and some modules. <br />
Proceeded to setup RFS using Fedora 11 for ARM (arm5tel).<br />
Fedora F11 for ARM is missing major components required by the XS.<br />
Fedora ARM project is currently porting Fedora 13 to ARM (arm5tel).  I pointed out that the XS required certain components and those are in the build list.<br />
Mid February 2011 - Fedora 13 for ARM is not ready for release.<br />
Summer 2011 -  Fedora 13 for ARM is now usable<br />
Plan going forward is use Fedora 13 for ARM then when Fedora 14 is usable switch to it ( or maybe even Fedora 15).<br />
According to Martin L. all hsi patches for Ejabberd are upstreamed and in Fedora 13.<br />
Have ejabberd on system and need to try some tests with XOs<br />
Problem with Bios-Crypto failing to build...removed the intel specific -m32 flag from an experimental version of the makefile.<br />
Starts to build but fails near end with a few errors which are arm GCC specific errors due to a problem with handling static linking failing to find libgcc.a  Workaround is to explicitly link the libgcc_s.so.  Supposedly a fix is in the works for GCC tools for static linking of libgcc.a .  <br />
Plan going forward is to try to get individual components running on system and then integrate. Using http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff/XS_0.7-F14-rebuild as a guide to what is needed<br />

Thinking of creating RPMs for arm5tel that will pull everything in and modify scripts when run.<br />
Future goal would be arm7l