F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 06:50:07PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> llvmpipe has been known to be broken for months, and nobody on the ARM 
> team appears capable of fixing it. As a result, ARM shipped in F19 
> without any out of the box support for running our default desktop.
> 
> This doesn't make it seem like the ARM port currently has sufficient 
> developer expertise involved, and I'd really like to hear what the plans 
> are for (a) fixing the existing problems, and (b) ensuring that we don't 
> end up in a situation where other architectures are held up because 
> there's nobody who can fix ARM-specific bugs.


I'm also concerned that stack protector does not workyet at all.  Even if
the desktop was useable, how would we tell people that it's okay to
run e.g. firefox with a straight face?  It's not as bad as if, say,
selinux didn't work, but it's a significant concern.

-- 
        Peter