Monday, February 7, 2022

[fedora-arm] Re: F37 Change: RetireARMv7 (System-Wide Change proposal)

On Sun, 2022-02-06 at 14:54 +0100, David Bold wrote:
>
>
> I just tried to install Fedora on RPi, and I ended up on [1] where I
> downloaded an image. That was unfortunately armv7 - and I needed to go
> to [2] - which was not linked in the descriptions [3,4]. Also the wiki
> lists first the armv7 [5]
>
> [1] https://arm.fedoraproject.org/
> [2] https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/
> [3] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/raspberry-pi/
> [4]
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/raspberry-pi/#installing-fedora-on-a-raspberry-pi-using-the-fedora-arm-installer_rpi
> [5] https://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora_Linux_35

So yeah, I think cleaning up and modernizing all this should be in-
scope for the Change, thanks for highlighting it.

The arm.fp.o site and the docs page you used are both, I think, older
things that date from before we really supported aarch64 much at all,
and they clearly haven't been updated. The "current" approach is not
great either, though. If you just go in through the front door of the
docs page you'd go to "User Documentation" for "Fedora Linux 35", which
takes you here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f35/

from where I guess you'd go to
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f35/install-guide/Downloading_Fedora/
, which has an "ARM images" section which points you to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM . That page then
points you to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Installation , which
does at least cover aarch64, but seems to give armhfp equal or higher
prominence.

It would be great if we can get a doc person to take a look at all
these pages referenced above and try to streamline them, modernize
them, and get them all singing from the same hymn sheet, I guess.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net

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