[fedora-arm] Fedora 23 for aarch64 is here!

[Bob Goodwin]

On 11/10/15 04:17, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>  wrote:
>> >On 11/10/15 03:35, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>"On ARM it means raspberry/pi boards (iirc odroid ones were not good
>>> >>too)." On AArch64 all CE 96boards ones.
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>> >I don't understand this? What is the problem with the latest RPI-2b? Mine
>> >has been put aside [ 6+ months] since no end of trying Fedora on it has
>> >produced a working XFCE desktop. It seems I need to obtain a different board
>> >if I am to see it work?
>> >
>> >Just curious,
> Basically there is no upstream mainline Linus kernel support for the
> RPi2 (and the original version isn't much better), I tried pulling in
> patches to get it working but stopped when the diff got to nearly 100K
> lines of patch which is an order of magnitude more than all of the
> rest of the kernel patches in the kernel. Basically it's hard to
> maintain, it's something that I'll revisit when 4.4 rc1 is out to see
> if it's improved but it's not looking good.
>
> Basically the Raspberry Pi organisation has no urge to be a good
> citizen in the open source community.
>
> Peter
>
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This is good information that I have not had before and always wondered 
why ...

I spent a lot of time trying to make it work, it sort of does, just 
nothing I could do would produce a working keyboard and mouse with the 
XFCE desktop or via SSH.
Things like gedit and xfce settings would display nicely via ssh. I just 
wanted the desktop display to work first ...

I would appreciate a suggestion as to the best board to try next.

Bob

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