[Arm-netbook] Fedora 17 ARM

[Henrik Nordström]

tor 2012-06-21 klockan 22:42 +0100 skrev lkcl luke:

>  didn't someone already do rpm packages for ARM, and host them _and_
> announce them a few months ago?

Fedora ARM have very a long history as a secondary architecture, dating
back to Fedora 12 several years ago (if not even earlier, but records of
the very early days are gone in bits) with counless number of rpm
packages. ARM being a secondary architecture means it runs it's own
build system shadowing the main build farm, and is also not bound to the
official release cycle.

In the last year+ the Fedora ARM project have expanded into two separate
ARM architectures, the old armv5tel (ARMv5 softfloat) and now also
armv7hl (ARMv7 hardfloat). And also gained a lot more momentum keeping
closer to the main release cycle. There is also a big push currently for
making ARM a primary architecture, integrating the ARM builds into the
main build farm and requiring packages to pass building on ARM for a
build to be accepted.

The BIG (yes BIG) news right now is that Fedora ARM have recently made a
full release with the Fedora 17 release, only some weeks after the main
Fedora 17 release, with support for a wide range of ARM based systems.
This means that the full Fedora software stack is now available on ARM
with only minor exceptions.

To learn more of Fedora on ARM please visit
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM 

What is needed for a A10 Fedora remix is
* A10 Kernel RPM build & repository.
* A little script / configuration file pulling the right pieces together
* some documentation on how to use the remix.

Regards
Henrik
Fedora packaging contributor, ARM contributor & Ambassador
and many other free software things outside Fedora