On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:36:40PM -0600, Adam Miller wrote:

> >> This really might be my ignorance in the ARM world shining, but a big
> >> point I would worry about would be power management support that I
> >> assume would matter on the versions as they are SOC. But at the same
> >> time I don't even know that has to do with the software. Anyone have
> >> any insight into this?
> >
> > Most of these are hardware and architecture independent features
> > exposed to userland by the kernel.  I.e. the hardware specific details
> > of it all are handled entirely inside the kernel (in the ideal case,
> > at least).
> 
> So a custom kernel for a device as well as an optimized glibc andl
> openssl would most likely be sufficient for those bits as well? (I
> think this is where others have been going with their suggestions, I
> just want to make sure I "get it")

A custom kernel for a device is a basic requirement to get a Fedora
userland booting on it.  (There are no "one size fits all" kernels
in ARM land -- yet.)

A custom glibc/openssl would just be optimisations -- the system would
work fine with just the stock glibc/openssl packages.
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