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I apologize for my ignorance, but why is the original Raspberry Pi not supported? It would seem if the announcement has been made that it will never be support
by rocky1138 10y ago
I apologize for my ignorance, but why is the original Raspberry Pi not supported?
It would seem if the announcement has been made that it will never be supported, a note as to why would make sense. Unfortunately, the news release didn't include one.
- justin66 10y agoDead slow CPU, not a lot of memory.
- nullr0ute 10y agoARMv6 core, Fedora (and a lot of other distros) only support ARMv7 and newer.
- rocky1138 10y agoYes, but why?
- nullr0ute 10y agoBecause ARMv6 is EOL by ARM, has a number of architecture issues and design/toolchain bugs. Until the RPi came along there was literally no other non low end phone devices that had the ARMv6 design in them. Fedora made the decision that ARMv6 wasn't worth the effort in supporting and the performance hit that would affect the ARMv7 devices (at the time based on toolchain optimisation). The original Raspberry Pi was announced long after that decision was made and it was decided that it wasn't worth the effort to support ARMv6, even 5 years on from that decision it's still the right one to have made, and most other distros have had the same discussion around ARMv6 and still made the same decision to not bother with ARMv6 support.
- rocky1138 10y agoPerfect, thanks!