arm support of workstation product

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Mar 7 18:56:04 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:52:30AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> I noticed that in the hardware supported in the tech specs says 64 bit
> only. I believe that in the f21 time frame we should be able to
> integrate etnaviv [1][2] and be able to offer a viable arm based
> option. note that arm ships in two formats, disk image that's ready to
> run and install tree. there is no support to run anaconda and do a
> liveinstall type install. For some possible systems putting the image
> onto a sdcard and running will be fine. But for some others there may
> be a desire to install onto a hard drive to use. 

It was a requirement that ARM provide Anaconda support where possible in 
order to be promoted. If we're talking about hardware that's so limited 
that Anaconda doesn't make sense, I don't think Workstation makes sense 
either.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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