Re: Official support for Wand Board?

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Take a look at our list archives for an HDMI patch.
I believe Robert Nelson referenced the patch maybe a week ago.

Regards,
-Jon

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:47 AM, John Reed <johnreed073@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your response! Great -- I will try out f20.
>
> Who can I email to bug them about releasing the HDMI driver? Would the
> Wandboard mailing list be the right place to do that? Or is it Freescale?
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
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>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:46:59 -0500
>> John Reed <johnreed073@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > There are some messages on this group about running Fedora on the Wand
>> > Board; however, no images are available to download for the Wand
>> > Board on the Fedora page. Are there plans to officially support the
>> > Wand Board, which is based on the Cortex-A9? I have the impression
>> > that the hardware support is going to be better for that board in the
>> > long run than the Panda Board with Cortex-A9. These embedded Linux
>> > boards are just lightning fast.
>> >
>> > For instance, the audio drivers on the Panda Board are in really bad
>> > shape, and I doubt that they are going to be fixed so that they work
>> > properly now that TI has laid off their OMAP4 engineers. (By
>> > bisecting kernel versions, I was able to get ALSA audio to start 75%
>> > of the time on the Panda Board, but always only at 96kHz. For my
>> > colleagues and myself, 75% of the time really is not good enough.) I
>> > just got a Wand Board quad, and using an SD card image, I was able to
>> > get audio up and running very fast. However, I really would prefer to
>> > use Fedora :)   Any thoughts?
>> >
>> > Cheers.
>>
>> Yes we plan to fully support the wandboards.  We do not produce images
>> for any board at all, instead we produce an image that needs some small
>> tweaking to be usable on any supported board.
>>
>> we intend to provide the tooling to do the tweaking. There is currently
>> no support for the wandboard in the tooling, that is something greatly
>> needed. the current f20 kernel works fine on the wandboard quad, I do
>> not know of anyone testing on the solo or dual versions. there is no
>> support for X as the hdmi driver is not yet upstream.
>>
>> Dennis
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