On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:18 PM, William Henry <whenry@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi,

I was looking over at Linaro.org and saw them recommend Freescale's i.MX53 Quick Start board [1]

Then I looked at the list of ARM boards with Fedora 18 and the Remix list and didn't see Freescale mentioned. Anyone done any Fedora work on that board?

Their Code Warrior setup for their boards is nice. So I was considering one of these boards.  Thoughts?

The imx53 is rather old these days and not overly cheap compared to some of the other boards on the market now days. In fact pretty much all the boards listed on the Linaro site are some what long in the teeth.

We did support a IMX kernel which supported imx51 and imx53 chipsets but I never had a report of whether it worked or not on those boards.

The imx SoCs are now able to be supported in the unified kernels but there was an issue that stopped us from enabling it in 3.8, I'm aiming to have it enabled as part of 3.9 but it's not there yet.

What sort of device are you looking for?

The new BeagleBone due out this month should be nice and cheap and we plan to support it sooner rather than later.

If you particularly want an iMX device I would suggest an iMX6 device:

A couple of dev boards.
http://www.wandboard.org/

The following is quad core iMX6 (use discount code (FVKIWVAG)
http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Unii-GK802-Fresscale-i-MX6-Quad-Dure-Cortex-A9-DDR3-1GB-RAM-8GB-ROM-TV-Box-Dongle----Black-312807.html

Peter