[fedora-arm] I think my USB serial UART died - when will F21 have display support?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 07/28/2014 04:10 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/28/2014 08:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> On 07/28/2014 02:05 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 07/28/2014 07:21 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> I am getting proper console display with
>>>>
>>>> screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
>>>>
>>>> But typing is all garbled.  I am ASSuMEing it is the USB uart.  On another system, even the console output comes across as garbled.
>>>>
>>>> I think a neighbor has one I can borrow to test with, or I will have to buy another.  Of course if it is the USB UART, why did it fail? Cheap chinese device?
>>>>
>>>> So that means for now I cannot work with F21-minimal build.  When will F-21-Lxde support my Allwinner A20 (Cubieboard 2) video?
>>> F-21 uses upstream kernels, it will likely still be a while before the upstream kernels get video / hdmi out support.
>> Now that is truly a disturbing piece of news.
>>
>> Does the vga video on the Cubietruck work?
>>
>> What did you do to get the video working in your F20 remix?
> The F-20 remix is not mine, I did the F18 and F19 remixes, since F20 I've
> been focussing on upstream. The remixes all use a linux-sunxi.org 3.4
> kernel, which is derived from the android kernel sources for
> allwinner boards. The linux-sunxi.org kernels are still being
> maintained by the linux-sunxi community, so it shouldn't be hard
> for someone to do a remix using the 3.4 kernel for F-21.

My understanding with remixes is that I cannot replace the kernel. This 
makes doing a 'yum update' next to impossible.  I tried 
'--exclude=kern*'  but that left all sorts of dependecies hanging.

Thus this early into F21, it would seem that whoever took on the remix 
would have a big job to stay on top of the continual changes.