On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:35:36PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Speaking about hardware - and that's more a question for Spot - could > >> be possible to organize another round of HW give away as we did with > >> Raspberries? With a different HW, that's supported in Fedora and it > >> seems like there are pretty cheap options either. With some metrics, > >> like commits/packages/packages that need significant effort to make > >> it working on ARM... > > > > The sentiment is nice, but I don't think that last hardware give away > > went all that well. Also, to get something competent is going to cost > > money. I have no idea what the Fedora budget looks like, but frankly > > I'd rather use money on something more beneficial than buying hardware > > for a bunch of people that aren't already working on ARM. It will > > likely have a shiny factor of about 1 week, and then it will sit on > > their desk collecting dust. > > I agree, not sure what the contribution to the RPi stuff was like but > for the XOs that were given away I'm not aware of a single > contribution to any of the Fedora/OLPC/Sugar projects as a result of > it. IMHO it is also not that easy to get something going with ARM on Fedora. For example I bought a Sheeva-ARM devices to get upstream release monitoring running on it . But even when I got it installed, the device crashed with a kernel soft lockup. Now the devices are no longer supported. I got a RPi (from the hardware summer of fun) with the same intent, but until today it is not properly supported and won't. In the meantime I bought a Cubieboard, no luck here as well. Since the Cubieboard remix even requires HDMI output and does not work headless, I did not try it because if missing HDMI hardware. Also all the Fedora ARM efforts usually require to dd some images instead of just allowing to run a textmode anaconda via serial or some other installer, which just feels quirky. So now I gave up and bought a x86_64 microserver, which will then do the release monitoring among other things. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
