On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Jon Chiappetta <Jon.Chiappetta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This looks exciting / promising! > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/10/04/1942201/linux-37-kernel-to-support-multiple-arm-platforms I'd not read that but then I was reading the commit logs for the kernel so already knew. We've been awaiting this for some time. In the short term (3.7rc1 timeframe) we're hoping to get an initial combined vexpress/highbank/mvebu kernel for testing. It's still a long way to go and I suspect it will be more like 3.9 or 3.10 before we get to our final desired goal of a minimal set of kernels. > (is this device tree blob related then? or something completely different?) Completely different but still related. They are all a part of a big effort to be able to have a x86 style unified kernel. DT and the above are two parts of a big complicated jigsaw that's slowly coming together and people are starting to see what the picture will look like. For Fedora 18 with 3.7 it should (whether it works out in time or we start with F-19 and roll it back) mean we can support more devices with a couple of less kernels. The mvebu platform is the Marvell Armada XP chips so that should allow us to support the Dell Copper ARM servers, the Armada XP dev boards and the Codethink Baserock Slab devices. With luck for 3.7 we should be able to basically merge vexpress/highbank into a single kernel and add mvebu to that mix. Not perfect yet but another step forwards. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
