[fedora-arm] Cubieboards - Re: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support

[Derek Atkins]

Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> writes:

> On 07/18/2013 06:12 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm very happy to announce the first release (r1) of my Fedora 19 ARM
>> remix images for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 based devices. This
>> release is based on the official Fedora 19 Final for ARM images,
>> with u-boot and kernel(s) from the linux-sunxi project:
>> http://linux-sunxi.org/
>
> So I am looking hard at the cubieboards.  Either the cb2 or cb3
> (cubietruck).  I found the following remixs:
>
> http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubieboard/fedora/
>
> Is production f19 available for the cb2; or is 'based on final' good
> enough with yum updates?  What about the cb3?

My understanding is that the only issue you'll have with the remix is
that you cannot 'yum update' into a non-remix kernel.  Perhaps my
understanding is off?

-derek, who eventually needs to replace his F12 SheevaPlug with a more
 recent system...
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