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On Mar 23, 2014 6:44 AM, "Peter Robinson" <<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > I don't have an issue with ARM (or PPC) builds of the workstation, but<br>
> > I don't think we should decide to make them officially supported platforms<br>
> > before we feel very certain there is a viable community and ecosystem around<br>
> > them to make the product workable medium to long term on those platforms.<br>
> > This means of cause the basic lithmus test of having the shell 'work' on a specific<br>
> > piece of hardware, but also there needs to be a viable roadmap for that hardware<br>
> > going forward. I mean I don't want a situation where we declare ARM supported<br>
> > because someone got a build working on a specific dev board, only to have the<br>
> > manufacturer of that devboard switch GPU provider in the next iteration and leave<br>
> > us without a working open driver.<br>
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> Believe me you are not alone in that regard, it's a discussion the ARM<br>
> people have on a regular basis. We've already had one vendor and<br>
> another SoC go from hero to zero in a short period of time :-)<br>
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> > Rob Clark is doing stellar work on Freedreno and the new Broadcom source code release<br>
> > is good news in this regard, but I think I personally need to feel that a<br>
> > officially supported ARM platform needs to be something we can believe will<br>
> > continue to exist and not a one shot 'the stars aligned for us' situation.<br>
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> Personally I'm not sure either of those are of much value. The QCom<br>
> devices are primarily used in phones which aren't really targets for<br>
> Fedora ARM. There's currently one dev board I'm aware of and it's not<br>
> widely available and it's not currently anywhere on our roadmap when<br>
> it comes to the kernel.<br>
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I'm guessing you're referring to this: <a href="http://mydragonboard.org/db8074/">http://mydragonboard.org/db8074/</a><br>
Although listed as a SoM, it looks like the carrier board is optional with the 12V jack.<br>
No idea about the availability, though, but should certainly be capable of running any of the workstation products... if it can actually run any of the workstation products...</p>
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