On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 16:29 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:06:10 -0500, Chris Tyler
<chris(a)tylers.info>
wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 12:18 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Acording to the documentation on
raspberrypi.org, it would seem that
>> Raspberry Pi are dropping Ubuntu in favour of Fedora because Ubuntu
>> is
>> dropping support for ARMv5/ARMv6 (yay!).
>>
>> Also, according to the Raspberry Pi wiki, they expect that Eclipse
>> will
>> work. That doesn't appear to be the case at the moment. Has anybody
>> managed to get Eclipse to build on ARM recently? Or has Eclipse ARM
>> port
>> been given up on?
>
> We're working on the Raspberry Pi remix here (it has to be a remix
> rather than a spin for now).
Why not the standard release? What's wrong with the vanilla version?
There are a couple of proprietary pieces that are needed to lob stuff
over the wall to the GPU. It's hoped that everything on the ARM side
will be completely open-sourced in due course, but that won't happen
before the release of the first batch.
-Chris