On Sep 15, 2013, at 6:47 AM, John Reed wrote:
> Hello, > > Thanks for your response! Great -- I will try out f20. > > Who can I email to bug them about releasing the HDMI driver? Would the > Wandboard mailing list be the right place to do that? Or is it Freescale? > II seems Tony Prisk is working on it. See this thread http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-August/191067.html > Cheers, > John > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Dennis Gilmore <den...@ausil.us> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:46:59 -0500 > John Reed <johnreed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > There are some messages on this group about running Fedora on the Wand > > Board; however, no images are available to download for the Wand > > Board on the Fedora page. Are there plans to officially support the > > Wand Board, which is based on the Cortex-A9? I have the impression > > that the hardware support is going to be better for that board in the > > long run than the Panda Board with Cortex-A9. These embedded Linux > > boards are just lightning fast. > > > > For instance, the audio drivers on the Panda Board are in really bad > > shape, and I doubt that they are going to be fixed so that they work > > properly now that TI has laid off their OMAP4 engineers. (By > > bisecting kernel versions, I was able to get ALSA audio to start 75% > > of the time on the Panda Board, but always only at 96kHz. For my > > colleagues and myself, 75% of the time really is not good enough.) I > > just got a Wand Board quad, and using an SD card image, I was able to > > get audio up and running very fast. However, I really would prefer to > > use Fedora :) Any thoughts? > > > > Cheers. > > Yes we plan to fully support the wandboards. We do not produce images > for any board at all, instead we produce an image that needs some small > tweaking to be usable on any supported board. > > we intend to provide the tooling to do the tweaking. There is currently > no support for the wandboard in the tooling, that is something greatly > needed. the current f20 kernel works fine on the wandboard quad, I do > not know of anyone testing on the solo or dual versions. there is no > support for X as the hdmi driver is not yet upstream. > > Dennis > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlI1MlkACgkQkSxm47BaWffkCgCdEhoehcLU5aRg4W3EQW8PhxMy > QNsAnR9lC2hgaNzqjpeK2ty1uPVaAIU/ > =wZ90 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > arm@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm > > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > arm@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
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