[fedora-arm] Hardware list - Re: Fedora 20 for Raspberry Pi????

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Dec 23 21:24:42 UTC 2013


Is there a hardware list of arm v7 systems that people have gotten 
fedora on?  I did a quick search, but I've rarely been good a effective 
searches...


On 12/23/2013 04:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:51:13AM -0600, Jon wrote:
>> 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.
> The RPi works fine for many people.  2.3 million have been sold.
>
> I think we should be honest about the real reason: Either we have to
> maintain two sets of packages or we have to make everyone on the newer
> and faster armv7 suffer with unoptimized binaries, and we don't want
> to do either of those things.
>
> Rich.
>



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