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Verne in beta…
I have a number of devices that run Fedora and they all get upgraded at various times through out the release process. The eeePC 901 gets upgraded, reinstalled and uses the upcoming release regularly...
View ArticleFlock 2014 Prague
So I’m at Flock in Prague. So far I’ve been to a bunch of interesting talks about Release Engineering, Secondary Architectures, Fedora Workstation, Docker and Infrastructure. Of course then there’s the...
View ArticleWhen creating updates remember to build for rawhide and Fedora 25 (devel)
When ever we branch for a new release of Fedora I, and others, end up spending a non trivial amount of time ensuring that there’s a clean upgrade path for packages. From the moment we branch you need...
View ArticleConnect to a wireless network using command line nmcli
I use a lot of minimal installs on various ARM devices. They’re good because they’re quick to download and you can test most of the functionality of the device to ensure it’s working or to quickly test...
View ArticleWiFi on Raspberry Pi 3 for Fedora 26 Alpha
So I managed to land just about everything needed for the WiFi on the Raspberry Pi 3 for Fedora 26 Alpha (around 4.11 rc3). There’s one thing missing, because we can’t currently redistribute it, but...
View ArticleThe state of open source accelerated graphics on ARM devices
I’ve been meaning to write about the state of accelerated open source graphics options for a while now to give an update on a blog post I wrote over 5 years ago in January 2012, before the Raspberry Pi...
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Getting started with Fedora on the 96boards Dragonboard
Support for this board has been a long time coming, it was originally announced in March 2015 and shipped later that summer. Two years on we can finally add support for it to Fedora. The enablement...
View ArticleThe Raspberry Pi 3 B+ in Fedora
So I’m sure none of you are surprised to hear that I’ve been asked a bunch about support for the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ in Fedora. Well the good news is that it’ll be supported in Fedora 28. Most of the...
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Fedora on the UP Squared
With the IoT Working Group and Edition moving forward I’ve been looking for an x86_64 device suitable for testing IoT related use cases. I was originally planning on using the MinnowBoard or Joule but...
View ArticleUsing ZRAM as swap on Fedora
One of the changes I did for Fedora 29 adding using ZRAM as swap on ARM. The use of compressed RAM for swap on constrained single board computer devices has performance advantages because the RAM is an...
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Installing Fedora on the NVIDIA Jetson nano
Updated – Aug 2021 You now used the latest R32.6.1 release and it now works with the latest Python releases. Some minor edits below. Overview Nvidia launched the Jetson Nano Developer Kit in March...
View ArticleSystemReady ES support for MacchiatoBin
I’ve had a MacchiatoBin Double Shot board for some time. It runs various services for my local network and generally just works. I run a TianoCore EDK2 firmware on it using ACPI. It’s purely a network...
View ArticleFedora on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier
The last two years or so I’ve been working with NVIDIA on general distro support including UEFI and ACPI for their Jetson Xavier platforms. Their Xavier platform, except a few quirks, are mostly...
View ArticleShort history of ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 in Fedora
Back in mid November I proposed a change for Fedora 37 to retire ARMv7 as an architecture, FESCo accepted the proposal. Per the Fedora 36 schedule we branched Fedora 36 this week. Last night I enacted...
View ArticleUsing nmcli to configure a static dual stack wired network interface
I recently managed to break the network on my VM that hosts this blog. Basically I removed the NetworkManager-initscripts-ifcfg-rh package because I don’t use the old style ifcfg configuration anywhere...
View ArticleUsing fwupdmgr to update NVME firmware
The fabulous fwupdmgr provides the ability to easily update firmware that is published to Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) but it can also be used to apply updates that aren’t necessarily in LVFS....
View ArticleUsing iwd for WiFi in Fedora
Fedora uses NetworkManager as the default for managing all the various different types of network. Underneath NetworkManager uses wpa_supplicant to connect to 802.11 based, AKA WiFi, wireless networks....
View ArticleAny Linux distro on NVIDIA Jetson Orin with JetPack 6
NVIDIA has just released the Jetpack 6 Developer Preview for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin hardware. The thing that is most exciting about this release is they finally support the ability to use upstream...
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