[fedora-arm] Fedora on ARM netbooks?

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 17:42:34 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Given the recent interest in using ARMv7 processors in Linux netbooks
> and tablets, many of them (at the very least, Nokia's next tablet)
> reaching the market this year, I was wondering if Fedora ARM already
> works on these, and how well.
>
> Considerations:
> - soft float. presumably this only affects the kernel and glibc
> - installation. given livecd-tools and liveusb-creator, this should be
> doable. Do we already have anaconda?
> - desktop. The default Fedora desktop probably does not scale down to
> a 7"-10" widescreen device.
> - Moblin. how much divergence is there between them and Fedora?
>
> Thoughts? With GSoC opening up we could probably get some more
> resources into this.

I work and Nokia and am a Fedora user, if you have anything
interesting I could try :)

We try to be as close as possible to linux-omap upstream, but there
are still some missing pieces AFAIK.

-- 
Felipe Contreras




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