Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

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On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:24:05PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 06:14:24PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> >> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> >> > I was working on adding 2 more SOC's for packagers earlier this week.
> >> >
> >> > I wanted to see how much call there was for these... should I try and
> >> > make them accessable by all packagers? Or just have a group and
> >> > interested people could be added to that group?
> >>
> >> I for one would like to have access to some ARM systems for trying
> >> things out. At least one for each arch that's a candidate to become
> >> primary would be nice.
> >
> > I appreciate that some people cannot or don't want to buy hardware,
> > but if you did have roughly $300 available, then you should probably
> > get the Oct 2012 Samsung Chromebook or the Arndale development board.
> > The Chromebook has the advantage IMHO that it's a decent netbook.
> 
> $45 will get your a beaglebone which the last of the core support has
> landed in 3.11 and I'm testing the kernel now and there should be a
> F-19 remix soon...

But no hardware virtualization right?  I think the minimum we should
target for Fedora development machines is whatever supports hardware
virtualization, which is A-15 IIRC.

However a $45 option *is* good for people on limited budgets or people
who want to play with ARM but don't care about virtualization.

Rich.

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