[fedora-arm] Official support for Wand Board?

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

On Sep 15, 2013, at 6:47 AM, John Reed wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your response! Great -- I will try out f20.
> 
> Who can I email to bug them about releasing the HDMI driver? Would the Wandboard mailing list be the right place to do that? Or is it Freescale?
> 

 II seems Tony Prisk is working on it. See this thread http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-August/191067.html

> Cheers,
> John
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:46:59 -0500
> John Reed <johnreed073 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > There are some messages on this group about running Fedora on the Wand
> > Board; however, no images are available to download for the Wand
> > Board on the Fedora page. Are there plans to officially support the
> > Wand Board, which is based on the Cortex-A9? I have the impression
> > that the hardware support is going to be better for that board in the
> > long run than the Panda Board with Cortex-A9. These embedded Linux
> > boards are just lightning fast.
> >
> > For instance, the audio drivers on the Panda Board are in really bad
> > shape, and I doubt that they are going to be fixed so that they work
> > properly now that TI has laid off their OMAP4 engineers. (By
> > bisecting kernel versions, I was able to get ALSA audio to start 75%
> > of the time on the Panda Board, but always only at 96kHz. For my
> > colleagues and myself, 75% of the time really is not good enough.) I
> > just got a Wand Board quad, and using an SD card image, I was able to
> > get audio up and running very fast. However, I really would prefer to
> > use Fedora :)   Any thoughts?
> >
> > Cheers.
> 
> Yes we plan to fully support the wandboards.  We do not produce images
> for any board at all, instead we produce an image that needs some small
> tweaking to be usable on any supported board.
> 
> we intend to provide the tooling to do the tweaking. There is currently
> no support for the wandboard in the tooling, that is something greatly
> needed. the current f20 kernel works fine on the wandboard quad, I do
> not know of anyone testing on the solo or dual versions. there is no
> support for X as the hdmi driver is not yet upstream.
> 
> Dennis
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