[Server-devel] [support-gang] Raspberry Pi 3

[Adam Holt]

Valiant work: profound thanks Peter!

(Maybe CentOS 8 will even run on RPi4 sometime in 2018 if the stars truly
align ;)

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
> > For those who wish to experiment I have added several rpi3 images to
> > http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.0/rpi-images/
>
> Fedora 25 will have Raspberry Pi support for both the RPi2 and RPi3 as
> part of Beta due in a couple of weeks.
>
> > These are based on the rpi2 images, so they are 32 bit, but they are
> > configured to use the internal wifi as a hotspot.
>
> In our builds (Fedora Minimal/Server etc editions) you'll be able to
> dd the image out and boot it on either device without any changes.
>
> > The Raspberry Pi folks also claim the 3 is 30% faster than the 2, even
> in 32
> > bit mode, and have not yet announced plans for 64 bit support.
>
> Having been testing both the 2 and 3 I can easily see this. It's
> fairly basic... the v2 is 900mhz quad core, the v3 is 1.2ghz with 4
> cores. So that's instantly 1/3 increase.
>
> In RPi3 news I almost fell over when the firmware made it upstream
> into linux-firmware the other day! Not all the drivers are upstream
> yet though. I'm going to review how terrible and how many patches are
> needed to try and get it landed for F-25 GA. Time will tell....
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/
> linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=c4c07a8d1128d50a5c2885ceea1abbebaa82f820
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