On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:42:07PM +0530, Kushal Das wrote: > On 16/01/16, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Jan Kurik <jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Micro Bit = > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Micro_Bit > > > > > > Change owner(s): > > > * Kushal Das <mail AT kushaldas DOT in> > > > > > > Enable the use of BBC Micro Bit on Fedora systems. Users will be able > > > develop, and put in new code to their micro:bit devices using Fedora. > > > > > > == Detailed Description == > > > Micro Bit (or micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by > > > the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. It will be given to > > > every class 7 students in UK. This change will make sure that they > > > simply use Fedora to use their devices. > > > > This is a very limited description of the intentions. The way it's > > intended to be used in the UK is via a programming web interface > > written by Microsoft (apparently it'll be open sourced!) which will be > > the standard, but it'll also support micropython [1] and I suspect > > some form of ardrino style programming, but being a Cortex-M series > > processor is obviously not capable of running Fedora itself so I think > > for this to be a feature you need to actually specify how it's > > actually going to be supported and what tools rather than a handy wavy > > "support" outline. > My mistake of not putting in all the details on time. It comes down to > packaging uFlash, the tool which can be used to flash the device with > Python scripts, and MicroPython runtime. How does this relate to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113915? Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
