Seneca,
Seriously why isn't an official build released yet???
<RANT> I'm getting bloody sick and tired of the constant questions (IRC, email directly, Google+, GTalk, and even in person) about it here there and everywhere and the deathly radio silence from the people who are suppose to have done it. It's a complete shambles and frankly I'm embarrassed we still don't have a release.
Can we just call the armv5tel release stable and move onto F-18 already. If you want to do a SUPA-DUPA-FAST release concentrate on that for F-18+ in _PARALLEL_ to the rest of the stuff. I don't see it adding more than a few percentage points and at the current build will be faster than nothing which is what we currently have! RELEASE EARLY RELEASE OFTEN.
Also what is the status on support for: - a kernel with proper naming and provides so a yum update doesn't pull in a vexpress kernel - an updated kernel with temp sensor support and frequency scaling - the requirements for HW accel media playback (what libaries are needed, are they open source and can hence be packaged in mainline like other platforms) and does it work on Fedora? - probably other things.
I am _REALLY_ sorry about the rant but AFAICT having been away on holidays for two weeks there doesn't appear to be _ANY_ movement in the forwards direction at all.
Can we PLEASE have a weekly update to this mailing list for all to see as to the exact state of every component in the RPi image (with items crossed off so we know what's done and what's left).
</RANT>
I look forward to a release :)
Peter
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.comwrote:
Seneca,
Seriously why isn't an official build released yet???
<RANT> I'm getting bloody sick and tired of the constant questions (IRC, email directly, Google+, GTalk, and even in person) about it here there and everywhere and the deathly radio silence from the people who are suppose to have done it. It's a complete shambles and frankly I'm embarrassed we still don't have a release.
Can we just call the armv5tel release stable and move onto F-18 already. If you want to do a SUPA-DUPA-FAST release concentrate on that for F-18+ in _PARALLEL_ to the rest of the stuff. I don't see it adding more than a few percentage points and at the current build will be faster than nothing which is what we currently have! RELEASE EARLY RELEASE OFTEN.
Also what is the status on support for:
- a kernel with proper naming and provides so a yum update doesn't
pull in a vexpress kernel
- an updated kernel with temp sensor support and frequency scaling
- the requirements for HW accel media playback (what libaries are
needed, are they open source and can hence be packaged in mainline like other platforms) and does it work on Fedora?
- probably other things.
I am _REALLY_ sorry about the rant but AFAICT having been away on holidays for two weeks there doesn't appear to be _ANY_ movement in the forwards direction at all.
Can we PLEASE have a weekly update to this mailing list for all to see as to the exact state of every component in the RPi image (with items crossed off so we know what's done and what's left).
</RANT>
I look forward to a release :)
Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
I heard that there won't be an official Fedora build of the Raspberry Pi remix because the firmware license is not compatible with the Fedora firmware guidelines.
On 26 Sep 2012 17:15, "Elad Alfassa" elad@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com
wrote:
Seneca,
Seriously why isn't an official build released yet???
<RANT> I'm getting bloody sick and tired of the constant questions (IRC, email directly, Google+, GTalk, and even in person) about it here there and everywhere and the deathly radio silence from the people who are suppose to have done it. It's a complete shambles and frankly I'm embarrassed we still don't have a release.
Can we just call the armv5tel release stable and move onto F-18 already. If you want to do a SUPA-DUPA-FAST release concentrate on that for F-18+ in _PARALLEL_ to the rest of the stuff. I don't see it adding more than a few percentage points and at the current build will be faster than nothing which is what we currently have! RELEASE EARLY RELEASE OFTEN.
Also what is the status on support for:
- a kernel with proper naming and provides so a yum update doesn't
pull in a vexpress kernel
- an updated kernel with temp sensor support and frequency scaling
- the requirements for HW accel media playback (what libaries are
needed, are they open source and can hence be packaged in mainline like other platforms) and does it work on Fedora?
- probably other things.
I am _REALLY_ sorry about the rant but AFAICT having been away on holidays for two weeks there doesn't appear to be _ANY_ movement in the forwards direction at all.
Can we PLEASE have a weekly update to this mailing list for all to see as to the exact state of every component in the RPi image (with items crossed off so we know what's done and what's left).
</RANT>
I look forward to a release :)
Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
I heard that there won't be an official Fedora build of the Raspberry Pi
remix because the firmware license is not compatible with the Fedora firmware guidelines.
Correct at this point in time. I meant an official remix stable release.
Fedora legal and the board are working with the foundation to try and resolve the firmware issue
Peter
-Elad Alfassa.
On 09/26/2012 12:15 PM, Elad Alfassa wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com Seriously why isn't an official build released yet???
I heard that there won't be an official Fedora build of the Raspberry Pi remix because the firmware license is not compatible with the Fedora firmware guidelines.
Elad, the point of the "Remixes" is about including things that Fedora Proper can't. So this rant is about the official Fedora _Remix_ release instead of a official _Fedora_ release.
Now, the Release Candidates are publicly available, but their not blatantly obvious to find.
If you do a Google search you'll find the Fedora Remix page at Seneca as the third link. The Raspberry Pi forums our out pacing us here.
http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi_Fedora_Remix
From here if you haven't suffered link fatigue already, you will when you have to jump through three more just to get to the download page for the RCs.
1) http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi_Fedora_Remix_17 2) http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/raspberrypi/test-releases/raspberrypi-fedora... 3) http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/raspberrypi/test-releases/raspberrypi-fedora...
The state of the wiki page also doesn't lend much visual support to the fact that this is the _Recommend_ release of Fedora for the Raspberry Pi.
I would suggest that we put on a dedicated domain with the Download link right up front.
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Elad Alfassa -
Peter Robinson -
Scott Sullivan