On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 07:18:23AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I wanted to just drop a quick note that we're making *great* progress > toward having early 96Boards "Cello" boards for Fedora enablement > purposes. These are (AArch64) AMD Seattle based boards: > > http://www.lenovator.com/product/103.html > > These are SBSA/SBBR compliant boards that (from a software point of > view) look just like ARM servers. They're also low-ish cost (for a > server - $300+the cost of RAM and disk, etc.). Yes, they're not in a > standard ATX form factor. We know this. Before you rant about that, > consider that the goal here is to give developers a tiny board on their > desk that happens to meet the software requirements for server - we all > hope there will be many more server platforms that are ATX size soon. > > We ought to be in a very solid position to be able to support these > quickly in Fedora. I've got plans in place to get some early boards to > key folks needed to make that happen. I've also previously booted Fedora > on an early board with a couple of tweaks that need cleanup. I'll > followup with details, and with the individuals who are getting early > boards (they know who they are) to help get this moving. This is good news, especially that they are non-junk SBSA/SBBR- compliant boards[1]. I ordered one of these the day they were announced. Any idea when they'll be delivered :-? Rich. [1] My rant and your talk: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/linaro-connect-jon-masters-talking-about-the-importance-of-standards/ -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
