On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 19:49 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:43:10PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> I won't speak for the rest of the WG as a whole, but in the few
> conversations I've had with people ARM wasn't something most thought
> was a target for Workstation. It might be feasible for interested
> people to produce Workstation ARM images, but I would be surprised if
> that were made a requirement at this point.
There's ARM hardware that is, at least theoretically, capable of running
Workstation and has the kind of form factor for which Workstation is
probably the appropriate product. As long as the ARM team are willing to
take responsibility for ensuring drivers and install media work, and as
long as there's someone doing QA, it seems like something we should
support in an official sense.
I think it's reasonable to plan for its inclusion For The Future. From
what I hear from dgilmore I'm not sure making it an official arch for
F21 would be a great idea, but it seems sensible to keep it in mind for
future inclusion while we're implementing the initial design. It
certainly seems like workstation/desktop-class ARM hardware is a thing
that's happening: there already are ARM-based systems probably powerful
enough to run Workstation, the Utilite, the ARM Chromebooks. We don't
have all the bits in place to support them *yet*, but it certainly seems
like we will, and it seems reasonable to assume others will follow where
they lead.
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