On Apr 7, 2014 10:58 PM, "Rob Clark" robdclark@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Liam liam.bulkley@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 23, 2014 6:44 AM, "Peter Robinson" pbrobinson@gmail.com wrote:
I don't have an issue with ARM (or PPC) builds of the workstation,
but
I don't think we should decide to make them officially supported platforms before we feel very certain there is a viable community and ecosystem around them to make the product workable medium to long term on those platforms. This means of cause the basic lithmus test of having the shell
'work' on
a specific piece of hardware, but also there needs to be a viable roadmap for
that
hardware going forward. I mean I don't want a situation where we declare ARM supported because someone got a build working on a specific dev board, only to have the manufacturer of that devboard switch GPU provider in the next
iteration
and leave us without a working open driver.
Believe me you are not alone in that regard, it's a discussion the ARM people have on a regular basis. We've already had one vendor and another SoC go from hero to zero in a short period of time :-)
Rob Clark is doing stellar work on Freedreno and the new Broadcom
source
code release is good news in this regard, but I think I personally need to feel
that
a officially supported ARM platform needs to be something we can
believe
will continue to exist and not a one shot 'the stars aligned for us' situation.
Personally I'm not sure either of those are of much value. The QCom devices are primarily used in phones which aren't really targets for Fedora ARM. There's currently one dev board I'm aware of and it's not widely available and it's not currently anywhere on our roadmap when it comes to the kernel.
I'm guessing you're referring to this: http://mydragonboard.org/db8074/ Although listed as a SoM, it looks like the carrier board is optional
with
the 12V jack. No idea about the availability, though, but should certainly be capable
of
running any of the workstation products... if it can actually run any
of the
workstation products...
fyi: dragonboard:
http://shop.intrinsyc.com/products/snapdragon-800-series-apq8074-based-drago...
ifc6410:
http://www.inforcelive.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=i...
Both are running (the same) f20 userspace + latest mesa/libdrm + xf86-video-freedreno (sorry, I'm lagging on updating for review comments for the .spec file) + custom kernel. Gnome-shell works perfectly. As do most of the games packaged in fedora that I have tried. (xonotic, supertuxkart, etc)
f21 should have a new enough mesa. For just gnome-shell 10.1.x should be enough.. for games, you'll want newer. The missing piece is an upstream kernel. But we are getting there.
BR, -R
To be clear, you're saying f20 currently supports the apq8074? The newer kernel would be needed to make gaming a possibility, but not for hardware enablement? Do you know if f20 is enough for the SoM as well?
Best/Liam