Official support for Wand Board?

[John Reed]

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.

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:46:59 -0500
John Reed  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
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[John Reed]

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?

Cheers,
John

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Dennis Gilmore  wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:46:59 -0500
> John Reed  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
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[Jon]

Take a look at our list archives for an HDMI patch.
I believe Robert Nelson referenced the patch maybe a week ago.

Regards,
-Jon

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:47 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?
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Dennis Gilmore  wrote:
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> > On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:46:59 -0500
> > John Reed  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
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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.htm...
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Dennis Gilmore  wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:46:59 -0500
> John Reed  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
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