On 26 Sep 2012 17:15, "Elad Alfassa" <elad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Seneca,
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>> Seriously why isn't an official build released yet???
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>> <RANT>
>> I'm getting bloody sick and tired of the constant questions (IRC,
>> email directly, Google+, GTalk, and even in person) about it here
>> there and everywhere and the deathly radio silence from the people who
>> are suppose to have done it. It's a complete shambles and frankly I'm
>> embarrassed we still don't have a release.
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>> Can we just call the armv5tel release stable and move onto F-18
>> already. If you want to do a SUPA-DUPA-FAST release concentrate on
>> that for F-18+ in _PARALLEL_ to the rest of the stuff. I don't see it
>> adding more than a few percentage points and at the current build will
>> be faster than nothing which is what we currently have! RELEASE EARLY
>> RELEASE OFTEN.
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>> Also what is the status on support for:
>> - a kernel with proper naming and provides so a yum update doesn't
>> pull in a vexpress kernel
>> - an updated kernel with temp sensor support and frequency scaling
>> - the requirements for HW accel media playback (what libaries are
>> needed, are they open source and can hence be packaged in mainline
>> like other platforms) and does it work on Fedora?
>> - probably other things.
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>> I am _REALLY_ sorry about the rant but AFAICT having been away on
>> holidays for two weeks there doesn't appear to be _ANY_ movement in
>> the forwards direction at all.
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>> Can we PLEASE have a weekly update to this mailing list for all to see
>> as to the exact state of every component in the RPi image (with items
>> crossed off so we know what's done and what's left).
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>> </RANT>
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>> I look forward to a release :)
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>> Peter
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> I heard that there won't be an official Fedora build of the Raspberry Pi remix because the firmware license is not compatible with the Fedora firmware guidelines.
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Correct at this point in time. I meant an official remix stable release.
Fedora legal and the board are working with the foundation to try and resolve the firmware issue
Peter
> -Elad Alfassa.
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