On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 10:30:38 +0000, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In the case of the Pandaboard ES B3, there is no known kernel able to >>> boot the board. >>> >>> In the case of the A6, the upstream kernel is believed to support the >>> board with a very recent version of uboot. However, recently one of our >>> contractors (*not* an expert on ARM kernel & boot issues) was unable to >>> find any Linux distribution that could boot on it. >> >> I think we need to make a distinction here between "kernel" and >> "distribution". If you can boot a kernel, you can boot any distro's >> rootfs >> (I'm completely ignoring installers here). > > That's not entirely true, Fedora for example has a hard requirement on > a number of kernel features that will cause major issues if they're > not present. > > That said I honestly don't believe it should be too hard for someone > with a hard debugger and a bit of know how to work out what is wrong > with the Fedora kernel on the PandaBoard devices to allow them to be > supported again in the main distribution kernel. The main problem > we've got is people with the know how don't have the interest and visa > versa. I personally just don't have the time and gave my HW debugger > away as a result. >
The reason that we were considering providing some funding was in hope of overcoming the lack-of-interest barrier. Peter -- Dr Peter Brett http://peter-b.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
