fedora for ARM

[Manas Saksena]

Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:10:55 +0200 (CEST), Linus Walleij <triad at df.lth.se> wrote:
> 
>> 1. What is the target system(s) you're using? I for one have a very vague
>>     understanding of what lab boards etc may be used for running ARM
>>     Fedora.
> 
> This was my question too. I attended a talk by Deepak Saxena a month
> ago and it looked like there's no clear leader anymore, like Netwinder
> used to be. What are these RPMs for? OpenMoko? Palm? Are these systems
> even binary compatible in the user mode?

All the packages are built using ARMv5 soft-float with EABI. That 
provides a good baseline for most ARM boards/devices. To be useful, we 
will need to build for different CPU variants in the future (e.g., 
ARMv6, with or without VFP, XScale, etc.) that make use of the 
optimizations specific to the CPU variant.

The other part of this is the kernel. Unlike x86, it is impossible to 
build a single kernel that will be of much use. So, either we completely
punt and not build the kernel image, or we build multiple kernel 
packages -- one for each target board.

The ARM distro will also be unlike x86 distros in that it wont be of 
much use to have ISOs. Instead, you probably just need the RPM package 
repository as a good baseline for it to be useful (along with the tools 
and docs to use the packages to create custom root file systems).

Manas