>> At the moment I believe the best bet for this sort of support will be >> the Allwinner SOCs (and I never thought I'd be typing that) and we'll >> work with Hans to ensure his remix is usable and that we support as >> much as possible upstream to make his life as easy as possible. > > > Allow me to jump in here :) Now that we've a basically working kernel > based on 3.4 android sources, the linux-sunxi community is recently > focussing > more and more on upstream work so we are slowly getting to a point were > using allwinner devices with an upstream kernel may be feasible. This will > likely be like the early trimslice days, so no video output support, but > lan support is already in place upstream and usb support is on its way. > > The big remaining issue upstream is mmc / sdcard support, but I've good > hopes there too. > > Once that is in place users will basically be able to choose: > > 1) Use plain Fedora, which will hopefully eventually support kvm on > the cortex A7 (this requires using an upstream kernel), which means > loosing things like video output, audio in/out, etc. (for now). > > 2) Use a linux-sunxi kernel, which means almost all peripherals will > work, but no kvm support. > > I hope to be able to start working on upstream allwinner support soon-ish, > I'm more or less done with my work on the 3.4 kernel, everything just > works there now (more or less). But I've been quite busy recently with > other stuff. That's good news, from Richard's PoV the upstream with mmc/network/serial/virt support is probably more than enough to begin with. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
