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Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture

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[[Category:Fedora]][[Category:SBR600]][[Category:Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture]]
= Introduction =
== Fedora Secondary Architecture Architectures ==
[http://fedoraproject.org Fedora] is an [http://opensource.org open source] community that produces the [http://get.fedoraproject.org Fedora Linux distribution] -- a 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''' - A widely-used, low-power processor family commonly used for embedded and mobile applications, including cellphones and tablets
* ia64 - Itanium
* s390 - IBM mainframes (including z90 and z9)
* sparc - Sun RISC architecture
 
The [[:fedora:Architectures/ARM|Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture]] project supports Fedora on ARM processors.
== ARM Processors ==
ARM chips are the most popular CPU produced -- approximately 5 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, Armada, 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. ARM processors are used in emerging ''hyperscale'' energy-efficient compute systems based on [http://calxeda.com Calxeda] and [http://marvell.com Marvell] processors.
The In addition, ARM processors are used on:* [http://www.laptop.org One Laptop Per Child] (OLPC) computers, model XO-1.75, use an ARM processor. Since and higher (Fedora is used on the XO units)* the [http://raspberrypi.org Raspberry Pi], [http://apc.io APC], having a reliable ARM build of Fedora is increasingly importantand other under-$100 "hackputers"* [http://plugcomputer.org Plug Computers]
== Objective ==
Here at Seneca we're is supporting the Fedora ARM initiative by creating hosting and managing a [[:fedora:Koji |Koji]] build farm that shadows the primary architectures, so that every package built for the primary architectures (including updates) will is to be built for ARM.
The [[Fedora ARM Koji Buildsystem]] is accessible through a [http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org web interface] and through the koji command-line tools provided as part of Fedora ARM Koji system] is currently online. Anyone with a Fedora account is welcome to build packages on it; if you do not already have an account wish to make use of the build system you can sign up using the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Account System (fas2)].
== Status ==
The [http://arm* Currently building F20.koji.fedoraproject.org Fedora ARM Koji system] is up and running; it is currently building F13 under * See the supervision of [[User:Paul.W|Paul Whalen]] and [[User:Chris Tyler|Chris Tyler]]. We have 22 hardware ARM builders at present (see [[Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture/ARM hardware|ARM Hardware]]) which include 20 GuruPlug Server Plus, 1 BeagleBoard XM and an OpenRD Client. We are in page for details of the progress of building Fedora 13 and have just under 9000 packages builtbuild farm hardware== Current Tasks == {|width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" class="mediawiki sortable"!Task!Person!Status!Wiki Link |-|Build kernels natively and from SRPM|[[User:Chris Tyler|Chris Tyler]]|In progress|[[Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture/Kernels|Kernels]] |}
= Resources =
== Wiki Pages ==
 
* Seneca Wiki
** [[:category:Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture|Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture]] (Category)
** [[Fedora ARM Koji Buildsystem]]
** [[Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture/ARM hardware]]
** [[Motion Sensor Interfacing for Panda Board based Dash Board System]]
* Fedora Project wiki
** [[:fedora:Architectures|Architectures]]** [[:fedora:Architectures/ARM|Architectures/ARM]]** [[:fedora:Koji|Koji]]*** [[:fedora:Koji/ServerHowTo|Koji/ServerHowTo]]*** [[:fedora:Koji/Policies|Koji/Policies]]
== Mailing Lists ==
* Fedora Mailing Lists
** [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm arm] - For discussion of the ARM secondary architecture
== Sites ==
* [https://fedorahosted.org/koji/ Koji software project site]
* [http://blog.thebehrens.net/category/tinkering/ Booting OpenRD from SD]
* [http://chiana.homelinux.org/~marc/eib_sheeva.html SheevaPlug Update instructions]
* [http://paulfedora.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/installing-fedora-12-on-a-guruplug/ Booting GuruPlug Server from SD]
== IRC ==
* Fedora ARM Build Master - Paul Whalen - PaulW or PaulW_cdot on irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-arm
* Seneca Fedora-ARM Project Coordinator - Chris Tyler - ctyler on irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-arm
* Secondary Arch lead - Dennis Gilmore - dgilmore on irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-devel or irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-arm
* Fedora-ARM community - irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-arm
* Koji community: irc://irc.freenode.net/koji

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