Hello Peter, On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 12:02 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi Lubomir, > > > Seems like there's not much that's left to be done for stock Fedora > > to > > boot on Raspberry Pi 2 successfully [1]. > > There's not much, I've > > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308355 > > > > One bit that notably prevents us from spinning an image that would > > boot > > on RPi2 board solely from the Fedora packages is the VC4 firmware. > > Yes, it's one, there's a bunch of others, the kernel now should be > mostly upstream, it's on my list (it's very long) to enable this and > test it. Is there anything I could do to help with that? > We also need to be able to use u-boot so that we can do > standard kernel upgrades/rollbacks as well as deal with the fact the > firmware needs a VFAT partition without having to have the confusion > and QA of twice the amount of images produced > > > It seems to have a license [2] that's not compatible with Fedora's > > "Redistributable, no modification permitted" license for binary > > firmware blobs: it seems to have a usage restriction: > > We spoke with the RPi foundation about this years ago to get some > adjustments made for distro distribution, and then Legal and got the > appropriate exceptions, then the board (as it was then) to get the > approval there. Basically the work has been done already and firmware > has been packaged in Fedora since last June [1]. > > [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/bcm283x-firmware.git > > > > * This software may only be used for the purposes of developing > > > for, > > > running or using a Raspberry Pi device. > > > > [2] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/LICENC > > E.broadcom > > > > The way to go now seems to be to spin a remix with the firmware > > added. > > > > Does it make sense to talk to Broadcom or Raspberry Pi > > Foundation/Ltd > > and asking them to lift the restriction? I doubt it would cause any > > practical difference to them. Does anyone have a contact at > > Broadcom or > > Raspberry Pi I could talk to? > > We had those conversations well over 2 years ago long before the v2 > was announced. This is excellent news! Please pardon my ignorance; last time I checked the package was not there; but I surely haven't re-checked for a couple of months. We're doing a Fedora rebuild for the older BCM2835-based Raspberry Pi boards and this will help us shorten the diff to Fedora. (Didn't announce a release yet yet, and are still getting the infrastructure done, but have some bootable images ready). https://pignus.computer/ > Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
