= Name =
Arlene Daniel
= Our Goal =
To support the Fedora ARM initiative by creating and managing a Koji build farm that will koji-shadow the primary architectures.
Arlene Daniel= About The ARM Architecture =ARM chips are the most popular CPU produced, approximately 1.6 billion are being made each year. They are being sold under a number of different brand names, brands like ARM, StrongARM, Armada, Cortex, OMAP, Sheeva, Snapdragon and XScale to name a few. Which are all being made by a number of different manufacturers. Most of the chips created are being used in devices like cellphones and hundreds of millions are being used in other devices such as routers, NAS boxes, embedded controllers, tablets, and netbooks. = The ARM Hardware =One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computers - model XO-1.75 a subnotebook that is donated to developing countries at a cost of fifty dollars so that each primary school child could have their own laptop to explore the world, a Touch Book - developed by Always Innovating is a lightweight portable device that has a detachable magnetic keyboard and the SheevaPlug - a plug computer designed to run network-based software devices are some devices that use an ARM processor.
= Fedora =Fedora, an open source operating system using RPM-These devices use a Linux based, built on top of the Linux kernel. It is developed OS and maintained by a community-support known as the since Fedora Project which is sponsored by Red Hat. The Fedora Project's mission is "To lead used on the advancement XO units, having a reliable ARM build of free and open source software and content as a collaborative commuinty." Fedora's main aim is to be a leader in the use and distrbution on software designed as open sourceincreasingly important.
= The ARM Architecture =
ARM chips are = About Fedora =Fedora is an open source operating system using RPM-based, built on top of the most popular CPU produced -- approximately 1Linux kernel.6 billion are being made each year. These are being sold under It is developed and maintained by a number of different brand names (ARM, StrongARM, Armada, Cortex, OMAP, Sheeva, Snapdragon, XScale) community-support known as the Fedora Project which is sponsored by a number of different manufacturersRed Hat. Most The Fedora Project's mission is "To lead the advancement of these are going into cellphones, but hundreds of millions are being used in other devices such free and open source software and content as routers, NAS boxes, embedded controllers, tablets, and netbooksa collaborative community.One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computers, model XO-1.75, " Fedora’s main aim is to be a leader in the use an ARM processorand distribution on software designed as open source. Since Fedora is used on the XO units, having has a release every six months and a reliable ARM build maintenance period of about thirteen months for each of its releases. Fedora is increasingly important12 was released November 11, 2009 and Fedora 13 has an expected release date of May 18, 2010.
There are also a number of secondary archs:
arm - A widely-used, low-power processor family commonly used for embedded and mobile applications
ia64 – - Itanium
pa-risc - HP Precision Architecture
ppc - 32-bit Power PC
s390 - IBM mainframes (including z90 and z9)
sparc - Sun RISC architecture
The ARM architecture is increasingly important, but there's a lot more that could be done in terms of update frequency, number of packages successfully built, transparency of process, and integration with the other Fedora build processes.
= Technical Approach =
