[fedora-arm] beginning of Fedora support for the Raspberry Pi 2

[Adam Goode]

The firmware should be acceptable for immediate packaging in Fedora:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines?rd=Packaging/LicensingGuidelines#Binary_Firmware

(I believe that page was amended explicitly to allow for the raspberry pi
bootloader. It even mentions raspberry pi by name in the example.)

The firmware is still required to boot, because it still provides runtime
services to userspace. Eventually it may go away, but probably not in 2015.
I think you would chain to u-boot if you wanted u-boot in the mix.

Firmware upstream: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware

This video contains some info about the overall open source roadmap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXDeketJNdk

Ultimately it is on people's radar but far off. (But could be accelerated
by motivated individuals.)



Adam


On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As a follow up of the discussion that happened at the last ARM meeting
> (and because 3 days post announcement of it I'm sick of repeating
> myseld:-P ) I thought I'd outline the process for getting support for
> the Raspberry Pi 2 into Fedora
>
> The first phase I believe should be a remix, with the modified
> packages required to support the install for that remix being is a
> published repository, while we're awaiting all the bits to land
> upstream.
>
> The short term repository should only contain the following:
> * kernel
> * bootloader
> * firmware
> * mainline userspace packages that need non upstream pacakges
>
> Everything else (eg xorg drivers) should be packaged up and go through
> the standard package review process and be in mainline Fedora.
>
> From there we can spin a remix image for testing.
>
> BUT before we get to that we need to review all the
> projects/sources/packages that are needed and document what packages
> are needed and where the upstream is located. In the case of firmware
> we also need to ensure it's re-distributable. Does the GPU firmware
> still boot or is it now possible to use the upstream u-boot support to
> boot the device and then load the firmware via the kernel like other
> standard drivers that need firmware, or do we even need binary
> firmware any more?
>
> I believe Seneca has volunteered to spear head this so it would be
> great if they can start by documenting the above and post the details
> of it in response to this mail so we can work out what needs to be
> done and where in preparation for the remix, this will then give us a
> good picture as well when we might be able to just support it by the
> standard mainline process.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
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