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

[Peter Robinson]

>>>> >>"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
>>
> .
>
> 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.

It depends on your usecase.

Peter