OLPC status

OLPC status

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Is anybody testing GRUB on OLPC at all? I have neither it nor any other 
i386-ieee1275 (I don't even know if there is one other than using 
coreboot+ieee1275, which is suboptimal, since you can achieve better 
results with GRUB as payload, if not it's a bug). It also doesn't seem 
to be any recent reports of GRUB either succeeding or failing on it. 
Additionally it seems that OLPC is very selective about whom to give the 
laptop and it comes tivoized. While one can use qemu with ieee1275, I 
don't know how representative it is. Some of the code like "nand" disks 
are available in qemu.
In light of this OLPC port is a likely candidate for removal. But since 
it benefits from much of shared code for both i386 and ieee1275  it's 
easy to keep around but guaranteeing any quality is essentially 
impossible. I see following courses of action:
1) Find someone who is willing to test from time to time.
2) If someone can point me to a way to get one without running into 
pretty high cost and shipping fees (few offers I saw on ebay make it 
available only in USA and cost more than an ARM system and if I buy a 
system for porting, ARM is more important), I can give it a spin evry 
now and then and before releases.
3) Put prominent warnings and discourage people to use it
4) Remove the port altogether

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko