On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:42:07PM +0530, Kushal Das wrote:
> On 16/01/16, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Jan Kurik <jku...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Micro Bit =
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Micro_Bit
> > >
> > > Change owner(s):
> > > * Kushal Das <mail AT kushaldas DOT in>
> > >
> > > Enable the use of BBC Micro Bit on Fedora systems. Users will be able
> > > develop, and put in new code to their micro:bit devices using Fedora.
> > >
> > > == Detailed Description ==
> > > Micro Bit (or micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by
> > > the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. It will be given to
> > > every class 7 students in UK. This change will make sure that they
> > > simply use Fedora to use their devices.
> > 
> > This is a very limited description of the intentions. The way it's
> > intended to be used in the UK is via a programming web interface
> > written by Microsoft (apparently it'll be open sourced!) which will be
> > the standard, but it'll also support micropython [1] and I suspect
> > some form of ardrino style programming, but being a Cortex-M series
> > processor is obviously not capable of running Fedora itself so I think
> > for this to be a feature you need to actually specify how it's
> > actually going to be supported and what tools rather than a handy wavy
> > "support" outline.
> My mistake of not putting in all the details on time. It comes down to
> packaging uFlash, the tool which can be used to flash the device with
> Python scripts, and MicroPython runtime.
How does this relate to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113915?

Zbyszek
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