To make a comparison: * Fedora does not offer support for older i486 processors. * The Raspberry Pi is like that, using an old (out dated) ARMv6 CPU. Hope that helps clarify. Raspberry PI are based on obsolete technology. Thanks, -Jon On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a > live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. > http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm -- -Jon _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
