[gta02-core] Fedora Electronic Lab support for openmoko hardware development

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Chitlesh,
I first need to say that I have left the Fedora camp many years ago, now a
happy Debian user, but still, your work on bringing together those tools
is fantastic I think.

> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html
> If you feel that we still lack tools that are important to the
> openmoko's development, please do not hesitate to let us know.

I have 2 links to stuff you might want to consider adding:

HeeksCAD: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad
links to several NURBS libraries and tools: http://irc.esben-stien.name/mediawiki/index.php/NURBS

Best Regards,
Wolfgang

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:05:26PM +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> Hello openmoko developers,
> 
> As part of our commitment to the opensource hardware community, Fedora
> Project has a sub project called Fedora Electronic Lab.
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/
> 
> Fedora Electronic Lab strives to provide a robust platform (based upon
> solely opensource software) for electronic hardware development
> platform for everyone. Since most of our users are also interested in
> opensource hardware such as openmoko, etc.
> 
> Hence for Fedora-12 release, we have included the trunk version of
> kicad, openocd, and fped. We hope that you, openmoko developers, can
> now work out of the box with
> 
> svn co https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/gta02-core/
> cd gta02-core/
> make update
> make sch
> 
> instead of this time consuming process
> http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/gta02-core/docs/GETTING-STARTED
> 
> That said, we sincerely hope that our contribution might help you
> seduce more contributors easily. We currently have the following list
> of packages under the Fedora Electronic Lab umbrella for the following
> architectures (i686,x86_64, PPC and PPC64):
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html
> 
> If you feel that we still lack tools that are important to the
> openmoko's development, please do not hesitate to let us know.
> 
> We also want to hear from you, how we can work together so that we can
> provide you a proper development platform.
> 
> Other references:
> * FEL-12 Release notes :
> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf
> * FEL-12 Flyer :
> http://chitlesh.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/draft-fedora-electronic-lab-12s-flyer/
> * Open ticket to track openmoko's support:
> 
> CentOS-5 and RHEL-5 users can also benefit from the FEL platform (of
> course for free) via the EPEL repository.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
> 
> Kind regards,
> Chitlesh Goorah
> 
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