F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Till Maas]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:58:11AM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> On 07/11/2013 08:47 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> >IMHO it is also not that easy to get something going with ARM on Fedora.
> >For example I bought a Sheeva-ARM devices to get upstream release
> >monitoring running on it . But even when I got it installed,
> >the device crashed with a kernel soft lockup.
> 
> BZ#?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865022
It is currently closed, because I did not re-test anymore after it was
announced that the device won't be supported anymore soon.

> > Now the devices are no
> >longer supported. I got a RPi (from the hardware summer of fun) with the
> >same intent, but until today it is not properly supported and won't.
> 
> Never been supported by Fedora ARM for lack of upstream kernel and
> firmware license issues.  It's a Seneca College remix, but AFAIK it
> works great:
> 
> http://pidora.ca/

Yes, but this is probably also a reason why there was little Fedora
related outcome from the Hardware summer of fun.

> > In
> >the meantime I bought a Cubieboard, no luck here as well. Since the
> >Cubieboard remix even requires HDMI output and does not work headless, I
> >did not try it because if missing HDMI hardware.
> 
> Never been supported by Fedora ARM for lack of upstream kernel.
> That might change in the next release as the upstream is coming
> along.
> 
> > Also all the Fedora ARM
> >efforts usually require to dd some images instead of just allowing to
> >run a textmode anaconda via serial or some other installer, which just
> >feels quirky.
> 
> F19 on ARM supports interactive anaconda installs over serial.  Or
> vnc installs if you want graphics.  Or kickstart installs if you
> want automation.

This sounds promising. Are there remix-anaconda images that can be used
to test this on a Cubieboard?

Regards
Till