[fedora-arm] Fwd: decent reasonably-priced armhf system with sata, gigabit ethernet, dual-core processor and 2gb of RAM

[Peter Robinson]

>> At the moment I believe the best bet for this sort of support will be
>> the Allwinner SOCs (and I never thought I'd be typing that) and we'll
>> work with Hans to ensure his remix is usable and that we support as
>> much as possible upstream to make his life as easy as possible.
>
>
> Allow me to jump in here :) Now that we've a basically working kernel
> based on 3.4 android sources, the linux-sunxi community is recently
> focussing
> more and more on upstream work so we are slowly getting to a point were
> using allwinner devices with an upstream kernel may be feasible. This will
> likely be like the early trimslice days, so no video output support, but
> lan support is already in place upstream and usb support is on its way.
>
> The big remaining issue upstream is mmc / sdcard support, but I've good
> hopes there too.
>
> Once that is in place users will basically be able to choose:
>
> 1) Use plain Fedora, which will hopefully eventually support kvm on
> the cortex A7 (this requires using an upstream kernel), which means
> loosing things like video output, audio in/out, etc. (for now).
>
> 2) Use a linux-sunxi kernel, which means almost all peripherals will
> work, but no kvm support.
>
> I hope to be able to start working on upstream allwinner support soon-ish,
> I'm more or less done with my work on the 3.4 kernel, everything just
> works there now (more or less). But I've been quite busy recently with
> other stuff.

That's good news, from Richard's PoV the upstream with
mmc/network/serial/virt support is probably more than enough to begin
with.

Peter