On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:21:02PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Adam Goode <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is the Raspberry Pi firmware now ok to be packaged in Fedora proper? > >Yes > >> It looks like the Fedora guidelines for firmware can now include RPi stuff. > >They now include ARM stuff and things like firmware required to boot a >device like the RPi needs. > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Binary_Firmware >> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/LICENCE.broadcom >> >> Yes? No? >> >> This is all that is keeping Raspberry Pi as a remix, correct? Or still >> waiting for full kernel upstream? (Let's ignore armv6hl stuff for >> now.) > > >Yes and no. F-18 is out so there won't be any more supported official >builds / HW platforms. For F-19+ the only HW that is being supported >is ARMv7+ as the amount of <= ARMv6 devices is shrinking as ARM have >officially EOLed those chip designs and are encouraging manufacturers >to move to one o fthe Cortex-A* chips. Also, as far as I know, there still isn't full support in the upstream kernel so out-of-tree patches would be required. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
