Hi everybody,
This weekend I've been moving various home systems to Fedora 20, including the system that was running my Squeezebox server. There were some problems running the vendor package, but I stumbled upon this community version of the server:
http://www.communitysqueeze.org/index.jsp
Not only do they support Fedora, they use Fedora 19 armhfp on a wandboard. I had no idea. Besides Pidora, do you know of other community projects using Fedora on ARM? Would love to see a big list.
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 11:53 -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
This weekend I've been moving various home systems to Fedora 20, including the system that was running my Squeezebox server. There were some problems running the vendor package, but I stumbled upon this community version of the server:
http://www.communitysqueeze.org/index.jsp
Not only do they support Fedora, they use Fedora 19 armhfp on a wandboard. I had no idea. Besides Pidora, do you know of other community projects using Fedora on ARM? Would love to see a big list.
Brendan,
I did post an intro to this list a couple of months back, letting you all know that we were using Fedora as the basis for our Squeezebox compatible Community Squeeze Player project (on Wandboard). Our F20 image is days away from release..... A big change for us, moving from a FSL 3.0.35 kernel on our previous F18/F19 images to a mainline 3.12 kernel. (The fact that NetworkManager has been fixed, so that NetworkManager-wait-online, actually works and does what it says on the tin, before systemd starts a bunch of services/shares that depend on the network being available, was my last "can't release an F20 image until this works". ;))
And yes, not that it was ever a secret, (but not something that we go out of our way to publicise either), that as well as the arm repo for our Community Squeeze Player project, we also package and maintain an community "spin" of LMS (and squeezelite player software, jivelite controller software) for the desktop platforms (F19/F20 i386/x86_64).
Regards
Clive (posting in my capacity as clive.messer@communitysqueeze.org).
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Hi Clive,
I did post an intro to this list a couple of months back, letting you all know that we were using Fedora as the basis for our Squeezebox compatible Community Squeeze Player project (on Wandboard). Our F20 image is days away from release.....
I remember seeing this and adding it to my list to investigate further both because I own Squeezeboxes and because of the use of Fedora and in particular ARM.
A big change for us, moving from a FSL 3.0.35 kernel on our previous F18/F19 images to a mainline 3.12 kernel. (The fact that NetworkManager has been fixed, so that NetworkManager-wait-online, actually works and does what it says on the tin, before systemd starts a bunch of services/shares that depend on the network being available, was my last "can't release an F20 image until this works". ;))
Out of interest in the future would you be interested in using the mainline Fedora kernels? I say the future as I'm aware up until now there hasn't been the support.
I would be interested in feedback as to what would help you to go this route as we move towards stabilising and maturing the i.MX6 and Wandboard support. Also with other i.MX6 devices such as the Utilite and Cubox-i becoming available will you be looking at expanding your supported HW, would kernel support in Fedora assist you in doing that?
Finally is there other non kernel things that we can assist with that would make it easier for the project to use Fedora ARM, or Fedora in general?
And yes, not that it was ever a secret, (but not something that we go out of our way to publicise either), that as well as the arm repo for our Community Squeeze Player project, we also package and maintain an community "spin" of LMS (and squeezelite player software, jivelite controller software) for the desktop platforms (F19/F20 i386/x86_64).
That was music to my ears to see (pun intended :-P )
Peter
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