On Jan 17, 2008 2:40 PM, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:23:10AM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> > Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
> >
> > The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> > little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
> > Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
> >
> > The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
> >
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
> >
> > The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
> > prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
> > into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
> > endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
> > which is provided in the filesystem.
> >
> > A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
> >
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
> >
> > There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
> >
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
> >
> > Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
> > you run into so that we can fix them.
>
> I should have bought something else/bigger than my WRT54, I guess :-)
Isn't the WRT54 MIPS based with 4M of RAM or so? :)
Yes I think so. They're Broadcom chips which I'm pretty sure uses a MIPS32 core.
But on the other hand my Dlink DNS-323 is a 500Hmz Marvell ARM chip. A
storage Fedora sub distro would be cool.
Peter