Re: Bug#817602: olpc-xo1: Removal of debhelper compat 4
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.
Meow!
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