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This would make the Raspberry Pi distribution a "first class citizen" for Fedora.
by adestefan 15y ago
This would make the Raspberry Pi distribution a "first class citizen" for Fedora.
- freehunter 15y agoWithout really absorbing the entire article (it got confusing to me at first glance as to which quote was from a Fedora official representative and which wasn't), I wonder if this is the reason why. Since I believe Fedora is the only officially distributed OS for the RPi, I can imagine Fedora wanting to jump on that chance. There may have been some kind of pressure (even just the request) from the RPi Foundation to make this change. It makes sense. ARM has a bright future. The difficulty lies in drivers for all the various SoC architectures. I'm not sure how Debian handles that, not having used Debian on ARM.
- adestefan 15y agoHaving used Debian on an ARM development board, the issue is handled by "you supply the kernel, we'll supply the rest." On most ARM systems there's a robust firmware that allows you to load a kernel from just about anywhere. For my system, I used multistrap to create a very basic Debian installation. I then TFTP over a kernel and boot using the minimal installation as an NFS rootfs. Once, I got everything to a decent state, all I had to do was copy over the rootfs to a local ubifs flash filesystem and tweak the boot params to boot from the new ubifs root.
- lucian1900 15y agoPerhaps not, the Raspberry Pi has an old cpu on which armhf distros (like ubuntu) don't work. I think this is about armhf primary support in fedora.