Re: Fedorator
by Brian Exelbierd
On Wed, May 31, 2017, at 10:24 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 10:09 +0200, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
> >
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> >
> > On Wed, May 31, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 04:45 +0200, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, May 30, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 05:28:31PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I'm writing it here to hear opinions of other ambassadors. Do
> > you
> > > > think
> > > > > > it's something worth investing time and money in?
> > > > >
> > > > > I read that it was already used on one conference, do you know
> > how
> > > > many
> > > > > people used it to create a USB device? As an ambassador it
> > sounds
> > > > like a
> > > > > cool exhibition item to me but I am not sure how many people
> > would
> > > > > actually use it. If people like to use it I could imagine that
> > they
> > > > > would also prefer a USB 3 capable device to make sure it
> > writing
> > > > the
> > > > > sticks does not take too long but this makes it a little bit
> > more
> > > > > expensive. AFAIK the cheapest USB3 capable board would be a
> > Odroid
> > > > XU4:
> > > >
> > > > I've heard that the odroid isn't currently able to run a
> > community
> > > > kernel. Apparently there are still non-open patches from the
> > vendor.
> > > >
> > > > Is this the case?
> > >
> > > I presume that because I'm added in the cc: this question is
> > directed
> > > at me :)
> >
> > It could be :)
> >
> > >
> > > I believe the XU4 should run fine, there's an issue around rootfs
> > on
> > > MMC which has a known work around and there should be a fix in
> > place in
> > > time for F-26 GA. But other than that quirk I believe they run just
> > > fine although I'm not sure what you mean by "community kernel" as
> > > Fedora ARM supports the pure upstream based Fedora kernel only.
> >
> > Jim (now added - I'm going to add a new person with every reply ..
> > j/k) implies this morning that we could use this board without
> > running the vendor kernel.
>
> Correct, that's my understanding, and I believe what I explained above.
Ok. I misunderstood. I was using the words "community kernel" to mean
a kernel built entirely Fedora using Fedora build systems. The Fedora
kernel, being based on the upstream sources you mentioned above.
My understanding was that ODroid's "vendor kernel" included private
patches not-upstreamed and therefore not in the Fedora built kernel.
Thanks for clarifying this for me.
regards,
bex
6 years, 11 months