[fedora-arm] Fedora 20 for Raspberry Pi????

[Jon]

To make a comparison:

* Fedora does not offer support for older i486 processors.
* The Raspberry Pi is like that, using an old (out dated) ARMv6 CPU.

Hope that helps clarify.
Raspberry PI are based on obsolete technology.

Thanks,
-Jon

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 06:32:47PM +0100, Geert Jansen wrote:
>> Out of curiosity: why is there such a difference in how the RPi is
>> handled and how other ARM boards are handled (BBB, etc.) in Fedora?
>
> Fedora has decided only to support armv7 (& v8, but you can't buy that
> hardware).  The RPi's ARM chip is armv6.  As a result Fedora isn't
> building this but it's handed off to someone else to do a remix.  AIUI
> they have to recompile everything, not just the kernel, so it takes a
> while.
>
> Rich.
>
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-Jon