On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 05:13:58 AM Clive Messer wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 17:38 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Fedora 23 for aarch64 released > > At the risk of incurring your wrath...... > > If I understand this correctly, the two "supported" platforms are.... > > a) AMD Seattle 1100 > b) Applied Micro X-Gene > > Now, please correct me if I am wrong, (it's been a while since I > looked), but ISTR that the AMD dev kit costs $3000 and the X-Gene, a > mere, $2500. > > I understand why RedHat might want to target those "business" class > solutions, but surely the 64 bit hardware that Fedora, (Fedora distro, > not RedHat disto), needs to be targeting with "official" out-of-the-box > support are the 96Boards, ie. HiKey and Dragonboard.... Hardware that > is actually accessible to "ordinary" people to tinker with, at $100 a > pop! We want to support the hikey etc boards, support for them is still not yet upstream. then there is the issues that without nand, spi, etc flash for uefi/u-boot you get in a place where to support it you need to go a custom route because the standard tools will not work. > Every single person I have spoken to in the last few months, and by > that I mean ordinary users on ordinary salaries, (not people getting > given expensive hardware for free, or earning high-end salaries that > can afford to buy $2500 boards), who are starting to look at 64 bit ARM > hardware are buying one of the two 96Boards solutions, not the $$$$$$$ > "business class" development kits. > > I am just stating this as an observation. I have no axe to grind or > financial interest in any of the above. biggest issue with 96boards is the lack of upstream and standards support, which is ironic when they aim to be a standard. for Fedora to support systems they need to get support for their hardware upstream. Dennis
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