Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 04:38:30PM -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > In particular, the GNOME image is missing. I would not say it has all
>> > the features of the primary architectures when it doesn't include the
>> > Fedora default desktop.
>> >
>>
>> This is mostly because of a lack of video drivers on ARM hardware, as I
>> understand it.   What good is producing a GNOME image if it requires video
>> drivers that don't yet exist, or aren't yet mature enough for serious use?
>
> GNOME runs fine without hardware 3D support, but the llvmpipe code that
> makes that possible segfaults on ARM.

gnome runs fine on ARM as well without llvmpipe support [1] and I can
use it as well on F-19 with a binary driver....

[1] http://bloggingthemonkey.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/freedreno-gnome-shell-on-nexus4a320.html
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