[fedora-arm] Someone interested in Pandaboard ES?

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Пламен Христов
<plamenhhristov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Recently I tried F21 on that board. The result was a bit disappointing...
>
> Apperently Fedora has several issues with that hardware:
> - thermal shutdown, after message something like "kernel trap/thermal
> zone/core0"
> - wlcore module error
> - some other error, possibly related to swap module /Need to redo testing
> here, not captured on logs/

I'm running F-21 on two revisions of the Panda-ES without issues. I'm
running one with a minimal install and one with XFCE.

I've not seen any errors around thermal errors even when compiling
things. Have you tried installing the kernel-tools package and running
the tmon util? My devices sit at around 30 degrees at idle.

The wlcore module error is a known issue. I black list them as I don't
use wireless. The chip needs a userspace util called uim to put the
chip into the right mode, also the patches to support DeviceTree
haven't landed upstream. In general the WiLink wireless drivers aren't
in a great state.

I create a file called:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-wlcore.conf
And add the following two lines:
blacklist wl12xx
blacklist wlcore

I can't help with the other error without more information. Overall
with F-21 GA the Panda-ES does work relatively well in my experience.
There's certainly some improvements to be made but it's generally very
usable with  XFCE or as a minimal install system.

Peter