[fedora-arm] Fedora 19 booted on Wandboard Quad

[Robert Nelson]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Clive Messer <clive.m.messer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 11:08 -0500, Jon wrote:
>> Whoa!
>> You have graphics working, but kernel 3.0.35!
>> Does that kernel have all the filesystem capabilities to make Fedora happy?
>> Extended attr's, ACLs, selinux, cgroups, etc....
>
> I've been shipping a 3.0.35 kernel with the F18/F19 images used by the
> Community Squeeze project since we switched to a Fedora based image back
> in February. www.communitysqueeze.org
>
> I'm guessing if I factor in that most of our users have downloaded at
> least 3 images, we currently have 20, maybe 30, Wandboard users running
> a Fedora based distro. I expect this will be 100's, (rather than 10's),
> of users at the point that our hardware (John Swenson designed DAC
> carrier board) is manufactured and available.
>
>> Does anybody know what it would take to get frame buffer support in
>> 3.11 or 3.12?
>> Maybe we just enable Stephen Warren's simple framebuffer driver? (aka
>> SIMPLE_FB)
>> Just wondering....
>
> Robert Nelsons 3.11 kernel build has Wandboard HDMI output working with
> this patch....
>
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/armv7-multiplatform/blob/v3.11.x/patches/imx_video/0001-imx-video-staging-Add-HDMI-support-to-imx-drm-driver.patch
>
> No idea whether that has been submitted to the gregkh staging tree yet.

The author "Tony Prisk" on the wandboard forums has been working on
^^^^ driver.  I'm getting the feeling he is more interested in getting
it perfect first before sending it out to the staging tree.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/