Hi Peter, > There is an ARM port for Fedora, and it happens to work very well > with the Marvell ARM chips with at least two contributors from > Marvell helping out. The Fedora ARM port is good enough that it > was used straight up as the basis for the MeeGo ARM support. The > only thing that's missing is a kernel for the specific device as > the arm kernels can be very device specific but I doubt that will > be a major issue as that is currently the case for the XO-1 and > XO-1.5 (of course I wish its wasn't but there's still outstanding > kernel patches needed for event the XO-1).
Thanks. I've been using the Fedora ARM packages on our Marvell board, so I do know about their status -- what I meant by "no port" is that it's not an official Fedora port, not even as a secondary architecture yet. I don't know whether it would be a good idea to ship product with a Fedora remix based on a port that doesn't officially exist yet; at the least, it would require a lot of work. For example, there's no Fedora 13 release for ARM yet. They're still on F12. > The Fedora ARM movement is growing very quickly with a full koji > build farm of 20 odd buildsystems and an increasing community. Unfortunately, as I understand it the koji build farm has been dismantled, with some replacement machines on order, but I agree that there's some promising momentum behind Fedora ARM. > From the gnome side I mostly agree, although the underlying infra > will be fully multitouch enabled with gnome 3. The issue with the > gnome 3 interface, which is relatively touch friendly, is its > dependence on 3D GPUs for the OpenGL rendering and the face that > the existence of open source 3D drivers on ARM is non existent > and even worse than the state of the x86 a year or two ago. Our hardware only supports OpenGL-ES rather than OpenGL, so that's a complicating factor too. > Let me know if you need help, or details of people from the > Fedora side who could assist. Thanks! I'm already spending time with the #fedora-arm folks, and we are considering trying to use Fedora all the same. It's not an easy decision, though. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
