> On Tue, November 30, 2021 8:32 am, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> Looking at the --supported list in arm-image-installer I see a bunch of > >> the NanoPi variations, except for the one I have (from work), the > >> NanoPi-R1. > >> > >> I was able to get Armbian running on it without any issue, and it's > >> running quite happily. However, I would certainly much prefer to run > >> Fedora. > >> > >> To that end, what would it take to get Fedora onto the device? > > > > There's no upstream support in U-Boot for the device, in the upstream > > Linux kernel there is a device tree, so you may be able to use a 3rd > > party U-Boot but YMMV. > > Well, I do have a "working" u-boot for the platform... But yeah, it would > certainly be "better" to have it upstream. *sigh* > > I've been using Wandboards, which I've liked, but I discovered that what I > was using just wasn't powerful enough to do what I wanted to do.. So I > was looking for replacements for my wandboards. I have a handful of these > R1 devices from work, so I've been able to play with them and verify that, > yes, it can do what I want and perform much better than the wandboard quad > did. The R1 is based on a Allwinner H3, it's a quad core Cortex-A7, it's not really any more powerful than the quad core Wandboard TBH. > Let me turn this around; what board (with case) would *YOU* recommend for > some small, low-power arm-based server platforms? I always reply to that with the question what are you doing with them? What are your feature requirements? Eth? Dual eth? WiFi, etc..... _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
