Architecture Manual

• Overall architecture
• The interaction between Sugar and Activities, especially collaboration
• DBus protocols
• etc.

Wish List

• How are .pyc files in builds created? Will they be regenerated automatically if I change a .py file and delete the .pyc file?--Mikus Grinbergs 2008-5-14 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-May/005696.html

Making builds

Our documentation on how to make your own build is pretty spartan right now. Reading

• OS images to understand the end result, then read
• Building custom images
• Puritan

is a good start. Olpc-update and Clean-install procedure explain how to update your XO to your custom build, you will first need a Developer key.

Try the process out and help us document it better!

Architecture pages

• Category:Developers
• Category:API
• Category:Python
• Category:Hardware
• Category:Battery & Power
• Category:Firmware
• Category:Firmware ROM
• Category:Git
• Category:Peripherals
• Category:Software development
• Category:Telepathy

• Hardware
• Wireless
• Power management
• XO Power Draw
• Hardware Power Domains
• Customizing NAND images Includes keyboard configuration
• Keyboard layouts
• IMEs
• Open Firmware
• Tag editing
• Checking the Layout configuration
• Peripherals
• Sugar Architecture
• Sugar architecture review 1
• OLPC Python Environment
• Sugar Architecture/API
• Localization
• Software components
• Activities
• Collections
• Bitfrost
• XS Server Software

This article is a documentation stub, an outline for a real manual. Maybe it should be expanded, maybe it should be killed — discuss..