Re: Raspberry Pi 3

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On 29 February 2016 at 05:28, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Built-in WiFi, Bluetooth, 64 bit processor. Is this finally the Raspberry Pi
>> that Fedora will run unmodified on? Sure hope so...
>
> No, not currently, and certainly won't be in Fedora 24 unless someone
> contributes a lot of stuff very quickly.
>
> Why? There's no source (yet) for the new SoC, it's not upstream and
> won't be until at least 4.7 (it has to be queued for inclusion by rc4
> of the previous release to land in the next release) it supports a
> boot process that is nothing like what we currently support for
> aarch64 so it would need significant work for aarch64 in Fedora, and
> the wifi firmware (looks similar issues that people have with Apple
> Mac wifi) isn't currently in linux-firmware so it's not (as far as I'm
> aware) currently able to be distributed as part of Fedora.


At some point, I have to wonder if Raspberry Pi is just trolling us
with each hardware release.


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