F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:35:36PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Speaking about hardware - and that's more a question for Spot - could
> >> be possible to organize another round of HW give away as we did with
> >> Raspberries? With a different HW, that's supported in Fedora and it
> >> seems like there are pretty cheap options either. With some metrics,
> >> like commits/packages/packages that need significant effort to make
> >> it working on ARM...
> >
> > The sentiment is nice, but I don't think that last hardware give away
> > went all that well.  Also, to get something competent is going to cost
> > money.  I have no idea what the Fedora budget looks like, but frankly
> > I'd rather use money on something more beneficial than buying hardware
> > for a bunch of people that aren't already working on ARM.  It will
> > likely have a shiny factor of about 1 week, and then it will sit on
> > their desk collecting dust.
> 
> I agree, not sure what the contribution to the RPi stuff was like but
> for the XOs that were given away I'm not aware of a single
> contribution to any of the Fedora/OLPC/Sugar projects as a result of
> it.

People who are inclined to do non-trivial contributions to ARM will
probably just go out and buy some ARM hardware themselves, particularly
given how cheaply you can obtain the hardware. For others, having a
central pool of Fedora managed/owned ARM hardware they can get temporary
access to for the purpose of troubleshooting is likely a better use of
limited funds.

Regards,
Daniel
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