F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Adam Jackson (ajax at redhat.com) said:
>> If we really wanted to talk about graphics on arm, we'd be talking about
>> writing drivers for GPUs.
>
> Is there any use to shipping freedreno and similar projects in Fedora ARM
> before they get to the upstream kernel? (I expect a brickbat from Josh
> fairly quickly for suggesting this.)

I've been following the tegra and lima (Mali 400) upstream work pretty
closely but neither is actually usable for gnome-shell yet to be
worth, IMO, even to be packaging it in a third party package. In he
case of the freedreno while the work is cool the qualcomm SoC is
primarily shipped on phones and tablets [1] which isn't our primary
focus so while would be cool to support I'm unsure what the user
experience would be like if we did ship it. Side note there is
upstream multi platform support for the MSM SoCs now but I have no
idea how complete this is (eg AllWinner MP support is upstream but
it's still only core SoC/serial/mmc)

Peter

[1] I've seen one dev board