On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:58:11AM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > On 07/11/2013 08:47 AM, Till Maas wrote: > >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. > > BZ#? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865022 It is currently closed, because I did not re-test anymore after it was announced that the device won't be supported anymore soon. > > 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. > > Never been supported by Fedora ARM for lack of upstream kernel and > firmware license issues. It's a Seneca College remix, but AFAIK it > works great: > > http://pidora.ca/ Yes, but this is probably also a reason why there was little Fedora related outcome from the Hardware summer of fun. > > 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. > > Never been supported by Fedora ARM for lack of upstream kernel. > That might change in the next release as the upstream is coming > along. > > > 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. > > F19 on ARM supports interactive anaconda installs over serial. Or > vnc installs if you want graphics. Or kickstart installs if you > want automation. This sounds promising. Are there remix-anaconda images that can be used to test this on a Cubieboard? Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
