I’m in the process to create a new documentation for Fedora Server (cf https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/) and want to add one or two articles about how to use ARM and Fedora Server. I’m new to the ARM architecture and had to learn that both boxes I have access to for testing, Odroid HC4 and N2+, are currently not supported by Fedora. Both are nicely constructed and well suited as a small home server or powerful service appliance.
My question is are there plannings to support them in the near future? Or is this too vague and I should better try to get my hands on something else to test?
Thanks Peter
I’m in the process to create a new documentation for Fedora Server (cf https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/) and want to add one or two articles about how to use ARM and Fedora Server. I’m new to the ARM architecture and had to learn that both boxes I have access to for testing, Odroid HC4 and N2+, are currently not supported by Fedora. Both are nicely constructed and well suited as a small home server or powerful service appliance.
My question is are there plannings to support them in the near future? Or is this too vague and I should better try to get my hands on something else to test?
All the Oroid devices are community supported, they've never cared about upstream and have signed binary bits needed for the early boot process we can't redistribute so it's not possible for us to support them out of the box.
Am 09.05.2021 um 22:17 schrieb Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com:
All the Oroid devices are community supported, they've never cared about upstream and have signed binary bits needed for the early boot process we can't redistribute so it's not possible for us to support them out of the box.
Thanks for the information. I have now read a little more about it and I understand that we have to wait whether and when someone stands up and implements the closed source parts in free software. And that may or may not happen.
Some additional questions whether I got the picture right:
I’m planning for an article along the outline at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/server-installation-sbc/. Can you spontaneously think of any other aspects that should be included, or are the listed ideas (completely) out of place?
And do you know someone who would write such an article (I am a notorious optimist).
Is there a more recent and more generic article about SBC installation on planet Fedora as is in QuickDoc (Fedora 25 and Raspi 2) that can be linked to from Fedora Server?
On the Fedora Server download page (https://getfedora.org/en/server/download/) are the first two entries (iso images) exclusively for SBSA systems as produces by Avantek and others. The third entry (raw image) is exclusively for the SBC world? Am I right?
How up-to-date is the compatibility list at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM? Some references are quit old (eg. Fedora 25) and the list seems to me much shorter than the list provided by the installer (but this may also be due to my current lack of understanding). Are there more detailed and better suited lists, perhaps in release notes?
Thanks for your help
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