RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

Brendan Conoboy blc at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 23:00:27 UTC 2012


On 03/20/2012 03:33 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> You haven't answered his question: why would ARM-as-primary come before
> Fedora-on-tablets and Fedora-on-cellphones? Those can be perfectly supported
> using the secondary architecture infrastructure (or if not, we need to
> improve that infrastructure).

That's two questions.  I'll answer the first one: ARM Server 
semiconductors are more amenable to open source licensing than embedded 
& telecommunication companies, so getting a complete open source ARM 
Server running is simple compared to getting an ARM Linux tablet or cell 
phone running.

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com


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