Hello Peter,
On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 12:02 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi Lubomir,
> Seems like there's not much that's left to be done for stock Fedora
> to
> boot on Raspberry Pi 2 successfully [1].
There's not much, I've
> [1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308355
>
> One bit that notably prevents us from spinning an image that would
> boot
> on RPi2 board solely from the Fedora packages is the VC4 firmware.
Yes, it's one, there's a bunch of others, the kernel now should be
mostly upstream, it's on my list (it's very long) to enable this and
test it.
Is there anything I could do to help with that?
We also need to be able to use u-boot so that we can do
standard kernel upgrades/rollbacks as well as deal with the fact the
firmware needs a VFAT partition without having to have the confusion
and QA of twice the amount of images produced
> It seems to have a license [2] that's not compatible with Fedora's
> "Redistributable, no modification permitted" license for binary
> firmware blobs: it seems to have a usage restriction:
We spoke with the RPi foundation about this years ago to get some
adjustments made for distro distribution, and then Legal and got the
appropriate exceptions, then the board (as it was then) to get the
approval there. Basically the work has been done already and firmware
has been packaged in Fedora since last June [1].
[1]
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/bcm283x-firmware.git
> > * This software may only be used for the purposes of developing
> > for,
> > running or using a Raspberry Pi device.
>
> [2]
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/LICENC
> E.broadcom
>
> The way to go now seems to be to spin a remix with the firmware
> added.
>
> Does it make sense to talk to Broadcom or Raspberry Pi
> Foundation/Ltd
> and asking them to lift the restriction? I doubt it would cause any
> practical difference to them. Does anyone have a contact at
> Broadcom or
> Raspberry Pi I could talk to?
We had those conversations well over 2 years ago long before the v2
was announced.
This is excellent news!
Please pardon my ignorance; last time I checked the package was not
there; but I surely haven't re-checked for a couple of months.
We're doing a Fedora rebuild for the older BCM2835-based Raspberry Pi
boards and this will help us shorten the diff to Fedora. (Didn't
announce a release yet yet, and are still getting the infrastructure
done, but have some bootable images ready).
https://pignus.computer/
> Peter