With Fedora 35 as well as current rawhide the list of supported devices displayed by arm-image-installer is a subset of boards supported in /usr/share/arm-image-installder/board.d and /usr/share/uboot. That' s a bit irritating, at least for new users.
Is this intentional due to a special meaning of „supported“ or rather lack of updating?
Peter
With Fedora 35 as well as current rawhide the list of supported devices displayed by arm-image-installer is a subset of boards supported in /usr/share/arm-image-installder/board.d and /usr/share/uboot. That' s a bit irritating, at least for new users.
Is this intentional due to a special meaning of „supported“ or rather lack of updating?
A little bit of both. Some devices we build the firmware but we don't necessarily have the ability to test them, some are so similar to other devices we can be confident they should be OK, others we can't actively test.
Am 24.01.2022 um 08:36 schrieb Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com:
With Fedora 35 as well as current rawhide the list of supported devices displayed by arm-image-installer is a subset of boards supported in /usr/share/arm-image-installder/board.d and /usr/share/uboot. That' s a bit irritating, at least for new users.
Is this intentional due to a special meaning of „supported“ or rather lack of updating?
A little bit of both. Some devices we build the firmware but we don't necessarily have the ability to test them, some are so similar to other devices we can be confident they should be OK, others we can't actively test.
Wouldn't it be more concise to use --installables instead of --supported and show a directory listing of /usr/share/uboot? And at the top (maybe repeated at the bottom) a reference to the different status and the table at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora_Linux_35?
(And no, I don't want to give plain "good advice" on what others should work on. I could contribute to edit the table, monitor and try to collect additional information, if there is agreement on this. I’m already doing a lot of documentation for Server.)