Re: [fedora-arm] Official support for Wand Board?
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:46:59 -0500
John Reed <johnreed073(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
There are some messages on this group about running Fedora on the Wand
Board; however, no images are available to download for the Wand
Board on the Fedora page. Are there plans to officially support the
Wand Board, which is based on the Cortex-A9? I have the impression
that the hardware support is going to be better for that board in the
long run than the Panda Board with Cortex-A9. These embedded Linux
boards are just lightning fast.
For instance, the audio drivers on the Panda Board are in really bad
shape, and I doubt that they are going to be fixed so that they work
properly now that TI has laid off their OMAP4 engineers. (By
bisecting kernel versions, I was able to get ALSA audio to start 75%
of the time on the Panda Board, but always only at 96kHz. For my
colleagues and myself, 75% of the time really is not good enough.) I
just got a Wand Board quad, and using an SD card image, I was able to
get audio up and running very fast. However, I really would prefer to
use Fedora :) Any thoughts?
Cheers.
Yes we plan to fully support the wandboards. We do not produce images
for any board at all, instead we produce an image that needs some small
tweaking to be usable on any supported board.
we intend to provide the tooling to do the tweaking. There is currently
no support for the wandboard in the tooling, that is something greatly
needed. the current f20 kernel works fine on the wandboard quad, I do
not know of anyone testing on the solo or dual versions. there is no
support for X as the hdmi driver is not yet upstream.
Dennis
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