Hi and Welcome, As you can guess, this project is to support Fedora on ARM architecture and platforms. This email is a short-introduction to the project. You can find more information at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ARM Let me first introduce myself. I worry about Embedded Linux, open-source, and other related things at Marvell Semiconductors. As some of you know, we make ARM based processors and system-on-chip solutions, that increasingly run Linux. This project is initiated/sponsored by Marvell, but it is intended to be a fully open project under the Fedora umbrella. The project started when Lennert and I discussed this a few months back. As many of you know, Lennert has been developing unofficial Fedora ports for ARM for a while --- a real long while! We started towards an effort of integrating his ports into the official Fedora project. A few weeks back, we started talking to Chris Blizzard and some of the RedHat/Fedora folks, and those discussions resulted in moving towards an effort to create ARM port as a secondary architecture within the Fedora project. If all goes well, we would like to have an F8 release for ARM. And, with that in mind, we have been porting/building the F8-devel packages, as well as merging any of the diffs for the packages back into the Fedora CVS. At this stage, the primary goal of the project is to do a high-quality release of F8 for ARM. The development effort is being led by Lennert, and he will be the technical lead. I will continue to provide guidance and support and help in direction of the project especially during the initial stages as we try to ramp up. Thats a long enough introduction. If you know of someone who may be interested in Linux on ARM, please invite them over. Regards, Manas Saksena
