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