[fedora-arm] Funding for creation of Fedora 20 Pandaboard spin

[Gordan Bobic]

On 03/08/2014 10:30 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> In the case of the Pandaboard ES B3, there is no known kernel able to
>>> boot the board.
>>>
>>> In the case of the A6, the upstream kernel is believed to support the
>>> board with a very recent version of uboot. However, recently one of our
>>> contractors (*not* an expert on ARM kernel & boot issues) was unable to
>>> find any Linux distribution that could boot on it.
>>
>>
>> I think we need to make a distinction here between "kernel" and
>> "distribution". If you can boot a kernel, you can boot any distro's rootfs
>> (I'm completely ignoring installers here).
>
> That's not entirely true, Fedora for example has a hard requirement on
> a number of kernel features that will cause major issues if they're
> not present.

I wasn't aware of that - I never ran into any problems with running any 
distro with the stock kernel that comes with the device. Maybe I was 
just lucky, but a more likely explanation is that the requirements are 
such that practically all kernels shipping with ARM devices include them.

Can you point me at the documentation that lists those hard requirements 
for kernel features are, and details on what might break if they are 
missing?

Gordan