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[01micko]

A kit to make any Puppy* OLPC compatible




*any Puppy means that it should work in most recent woof builds of Puppy
*this is alpha at the moment, use with caution

This is a build kit and script developed by mavrothal and myself to make it easy to convert a Puppy build into an OLPC compatible build

The kit includes:

*OLPC kernels for XO-1 and XO-1.5
*appropriate firmware
*extra Xorg chrome drivers for OLPC
*extra progs , OLPC specific
*a script that does all the conversion and strips out useless stuff to the OLPC
*README and help

It's really easy. There is pretty good documentation (sorry English only, Spanish on the drawing board).

Alls you do is invoke the program and point it to a Puppy iso of your choosing, the rest is automatic. The script runs on any Linux and does a check for makesquashfs, which is of course an essential dependency.

[01micko]

Here are some screenies of the script in action and some of the resulting builds in action on XO-1 and XO-1.5

The script:



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Slacko on XO-1.5:



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Slacko on XO-1:



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Squeeze on XO-1.5:



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Wary on XO-1:



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Next on XO-1.5:



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Attached is the script. just for perusal. It won't run unless all the support files are there.

[Lobster]

Congratulation to Mick and everyone involved in XOpup
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/XOPup

I am beginning to think that targeting Puppy to work
on specific hardware platforms is the way to go.

I am keeping a close eye on the new amazon tablet
- likely to be intel based - expected October 2011
http://www.pcworld.com/article/235699/report_amazon_tablet_set_to_battle_ipad_in_fall.html
Using DORG technology (not yet available) and Woof
we may be able to offer a Puppy on Amazon

oh boy . . have I gone off topic . . . again

Well done on the conversion

[sc0ttman]

Holy crap 01micko!! I always thought that the OLPC is a fantastic project, not perfect, but a step in the right direction for those who need it. I also think XOpup is a great idea, and a worthy project. And this script is great!

I know you said it's for Woof built pups, but I am hoping to get this working with Puppy Arcade and Akita Linux (They have DISTRO_SPECS and a few other 'Woof' style updates, so I'll see what I can do!)

[01micko]

[mavrothal]

Excellent Micko !!!

The image below shows luci-258 running in the XO-1.5 made with "create_xo_puppy-0.3", but look at the date of the kernel



It is made with the attached script that will download the latest 2..6.35.xx OLPC-kernel and Aufs2.2-standalone from the gits, plus some more pappy and config patches and will make the kernels.
It is fairly flexible and can build either or both kernels. Can be stopped at various point and continue as needed.
It and can be easily automated (Note:check 4 posts below) to run without any user input, but reckoned that the casual user may not need both kernels or stop and have a look if something fails, as the development of both OLPC kernel and Aufs goes on.
Of course in need a good connection to download ~600MB, about 1GB of disk space and a decent processor to compile the 2 kernels, headers, source etc.

It might be useful to others that are looking for automatic kernel building.

Now Mick you have to combine the 2 for v 0.4
I tried to be consistent with create_xo_puppy folders.

[mavrothal]

[nancy reagan]

Could never figure out what tha xolpc is about, first thought "old" etc.

Q1 But if OLPC is a distro on its own why convert others to it ?

Q2 Bought very cheap tablet yesterday Yarvik TAB311 and was wondering whether it could also be transferred to this tab ????

regards from a very- low- profile- wannabee user

[01micko]

Hi nancy reagan

[mavrothal]

Version 2 of the XOpup_kernel_builder
has the feel and look (and code ) of create_xo_puppy,
does not require any user input other than the original command
and will run on any distro provided the kernel building tools are present.



Enjoy

Update Version 3 will maintain the structure of the git archives for future use and will update them just before compilation. So there is no need to re-download the 600MB if something goes wrong.
Also now the kernel source package has the sources in the "traditional" directory (/usr/src/linux)

Update Version 4 also checks and updates patches if needed

Note: the git repo in the link on the next post has updated versions of this script. Currently at version 8...

[mavrothal]

I generated a git repository in Github https://github.com/mavrothal/Pox_git

Cloning it or downloading will allow you to build an OLPC-compatible puppy, but this you can do anyway already

The idea is that you can browse the code without the need to download and run everything, and hopefully come up with suggestions/modifications.

[mavrothal]

The current version from the git in the above post, will build a sane Slacko beta2

[mavrothal]

The latest update of the build scripts support the 3.1 kernel that landed in the olpc kernel git.

What I like is how little memory appears to be used.
As the picture below shows Racy on the XO-1 (immediately after the first boot) uses just 53MB

[rpkopreski]

Hi, I know this thread is a bit dated now. Firstly, thank you 01micko and mavrothal (and all the others) for your work on this. I just got an xo-1 and it has been a fun project machine. Currently I am trying to figure out how to get ArcadePuppy to boot up on the xo-1. My goal is to have a full (or nearly) screen display of games that can be controlled in tablet mode with the game keys.

Anyone have any success with this or helpful tips? I left off not being able to connect wireless with Arcade booted on my Vaio which I think was causing the "make" script to fail.

[mavrothal]