[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 10/10/2012 09:46 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

>>>> I know that RPi looks interesting, but they are still very hard to
>>>> acquire.  (Limit 1, then wait a few months??)
>>>
>>> That's no longer the case. In most cases I believe it should now be
>>> relatively instant shipping and they're certainly no longer limited to
>>> single unit.
>>
>> Glad to hear that.  However I'm loathe to throw away my investment of
>> Kirkwoods.  I cannot answer you how many others bought them.  Have you
>> tried asking them for approximate numbers?
>
> Marvell? Asking who in particular? And what configuration. There's a
> lot of kirkwood chips with 128Mb or less RAM which makes it a little
> pointless for a Fedora image and hence IMO not relevant.

Asking Globalscale how many Kirkwood *Plugs they sold might be a good start.

>>> Fedora no longer supports Pentium actually. It was dropped some time
>>> ago (around Fedora 12 from memory). The lowest level of support in
>>> Fedora for x86 is now Pentium Pro (Basically i586 + CMOV) which allows
>>> support for the OLPC XO-1 (AMD Geode Processor) and the only reason
>>> it's still at that level is because there's around 1.5 million XO-1
>>> united deployed and still be actively used and upgraded to current
>>> Fedora releases (The just released 12.1.0 is based on Fedora 17, the
>>> under development 13.1.0 release is based on Fedora 18). I know
>>> mainline Fedora would like to drop the support for that too if they
>>> could.
>>
>> So what you're saying is that Fedora *still* supports an x32 CPU that
>> was released well over a decade ago...
>
> No. The XO-1 was released in 2007. That's half a decade ago. Given the
> project came out of MIT and you have a @mit.edu address I would hope
> you would be able to count, are you in politics by chance?

I'm pretty sure that sort of attitude isn't doing much to attract users 
to the community. DreamPlug1 is Kirkwood based and it only hit the 
shelves less than 18 months ago.

Gordan