On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:51:30PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> 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. Right, as Peter says. Also I've just ordered a Cubietruck, so we'll see how that goes. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
