[fedora-arm] Raspberry Pi and Eclipse

[Chris Tyler]

On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 16:29 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:06:10 -0500, Chris Tyler <chris at 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