Current state of Fedora 9 on OM?

Phil phil at pricom.com.au
Mon Sep 29 19:40:38 CEST 2008


Andy,


Andy Green wrote:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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> |>> Fedora does have an arm port but it is for the armv5 instruction set
> |>> AFAIK, s3c2442 has 920T core which is armv4.
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/openmoko-kernel@lists.openmoko.org/msg03330.html 
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> |
> | refers to building a fedora 9 kernel in virtualbox - I asked if there
> | was a working image available that has actually been installed on the FR?
> 
> That thread is talking about my problems trying to get OE to build stuff
> on a Fedora host, the post means Holger tried out Fedora on his PC using
> virtualbox to fix the build action.
> 
> What you're asking about is something completely different AFAICT,
> running ARM-compiled Fedora on a Freerunner, AFAIK the answer is "no" as
> I explained above.  But I would love to see it, Debian with Gnome looks
> very cool indeed on Freerunner.


OK, now I think I understand - so we need an armv4 version? - I presume 
that means there is no interest for doing the work for that (older?) 
instruction set?

Thanks,

Phil.
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