Is Raspberry Pi firmware still unsuitable for Fedora?

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:21:02PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Adam Goode <adam at spicenitz.org> wrote:
>> Is the Raspberry Pi firmware now ok to be packaged in Fedora proper?
>
>Yes
>
>> It looks like the Fedora guidelines for firmware can now include RPi stuff.
>
>They now include ARM stuff and things like firmware required to boot a
>device like the RPi needs.
>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Binary_Firmware
>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/LICENCE.broadcom
>>
>> Yes? No?
>>
>> This is all that is keeping Raspberry Pi as a remix, correct? Or still
>> waiting for full kernel upstream? (Let's ignore armv6hl stuff for
>> now.)
>
>
>Yes and no. F-18 is out so there won't be any more supported official
>builds / HW platforms. For F-19+ the only HW that is being supported
>is ARMv7+ as the amount of <= ARMv6 devices is shrinking as ARM have
>officially EOLed those chip designs and are encouraging manufacturers
>to move to one o fthe Cortex-A* chips.

Also, as far as I know, there still isn't full support in the upstream
kernel so out-of-tree patches would be required.

josh