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== Fedora Secondary Architecture Architectures ==

[http://fedoraproject.org Fedora supports two primary architectures] is an [http:* i386 - 32-bit Intel/AMD-compatible* x86_64 /opensource.org open source] community that produces the [http://get.fedoraproject.org Fedora Linux distribution] - 64-bit Intel/AMD-compatiblea complete operating system (and more) consisting of thousands of software packages. This software is available free of charge complete with the source code, so anyone can use, distribute, and modify it to meet their needs.

The Fedora distribution supports two primary architectures; these are the primary targets for the packages in Fedora:* i386 - 32-bit Intel/AMD - the chips that power most 32-bit computers, laptops, and netbooks* x86_64 - 64-bit Intel/AMD - the chips that power most 64-bit computers and laptops There are also a number of secondary archsarchitechtures, maintained by various groups within the larger Fedora community:* arm '''ARM''' - A widely-used, low-power processor family commonly used for embedded and mobile applications, including cellphones and tablets

The [[:fedora:Architectures/ARM architecture is increasingly important, but has fallen behind the other secondary archs in terms of update frequency, number of packages successfully built, transparency of process, and integration with the other |Fedora build processesARM Secondary Architecture]] project supports Fedora on ARM processors.

ARM chips are the most popular CPU produced -- approximately 1.6 in excess of 7 billion are being made each year, or about a million an hour. These are being sold under a number of different brand names (ARM, StrongARM, XScaleArmada, Cortex, OMAP, Sheeva, Snapdragon, XScale) by a number of different manufacturers. Most of these are going into cellphones, but hundreds of millions are being used in other devices such as routers, NAS boxes, embedded controllers, tablets, and netbooks.

The new One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hardware, model XOARM processors are used in emerging ''hyperscale'' energy-1efficient compute systems based on [http://calxeda.75, will use an ARM processorcom Calxeda] and [http://marvell. Since Fedora is used on the XO units, having a reliable ARM build of Fedora is going to become increasingly importantcom Marvell] processors.

== Initial Plan Objective ==

We're going to set up Seneca is supporting the Fedora ARM initiative by hosting and managing a Koji build system for ARM. Initially this will be based on the [[CDOT Development Systems:fedora:Koji|CDOT systemKoji]] [http://hongkong.proximity.on.ca/ HongKong]. Initial ARM builders will use QEMU emulationbuild farm that shadows the primary architectures, which will so that every package built for the primary architectures (including updates) is to be replaced by built for ARM hardware when it arrives.

# [[Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture/Local mirror of ARM repositories|Local mirror of ARM repositories]]== Status ==#* David Cabral#* David ChisholmCurrently building F20.#* Daniel Gilloch# See the [[Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture/ARM VMshardware|Set of standing VMs running the ARM image in emulationHardware]]#* Sadiki Latty#* Paul Whalen#* Arlene Daniels# [[Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture/Mock Config Repo|mock configuration repository page for ARM]]#* ...#* ...#* ..details of the build farm hardware.

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