Re: Fedora 20 for Raspberry Pi????

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On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 06:32:47PM +0100, Geert Jansen wrote:
> Out of curiosity: why is there such a difference in how the RPi is
> handled and how other ARM boards are handled (BBB, etc.) in Fedora?

Fedora has decided only to support armv7 (& v8, but you can't buy that
hardware).  The RPi's ARM chip is armv6.  As a result Fedora isn't
building this but it's handed off to someone else to do a remix.  AIUI
they have to recompile everything, not just the kernel, so it takes a
while.

Rich.

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