On 29 February 2016 at 05:28, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Built-in WiFi, Bluetooth, 64 bit processor. Is this finally the Raspberry Pi >> that Fedora will run unmodified on? Sure hope so... > > No, not currently, and certainly won't be in Fedora 24 unless someone > contributes a lot of stuff very quickly. > > Why? There's no source (yet) for the new SoC, it's not upstream and > won't be until at least 4.7 (it has to be queued for inclusion by rc4 > of the previous release to land in the next release) it supports a > boot process that is nothing like what we currently support for > aarch64 so it would need significant work for aarch64 in Fedora, and > the wifi firmware (looks similar issues that people have with Apple > Mac wifi) isn't currently in linux-firmware so it's not (as far as I'm > aware) currently able to be distributed as part of Fedora.
At some point, I have to wonder if Raspberry Pi is just trolling us with each hardware release. > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected] -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
