Can anyone please explain this to me?
There is a huge Test organization for F42 and the Beta here. For all platforms / architectures.
It is kind of difficult to find the right ISO, but I guess I made it and every week I write the iso to an USB stick and try to boot F42 beta on a Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (Snapdragon X Elite).
What exactly are the other people testing? And why is there ZERO information about the fedora on ARM notebooks? It is really ZERO. One thread for fedora. One Webseite / Thread for Ubuntu Concept.
Since there is a iso for fedora 42 beta aarch64 workstation and there seems to be something going on, I expected, that something can be done with this version.
What are these people testing? This seems to be a dark secret black box. And it seems like noone is really interested in any kind of follow up with Fedora on Arm Notebooks. Just an initial discussion in 2023, another blog in 2024 and thats it.
What am I missing?
Cheers, Frood
The Fedora wiki is really intended for development issues. It is like a test-bed for Fedora Docs.
The official start date of the F42 Beta testin is something like March 11 or March 18.
Fedora F41 Aarch64 should work on an Arm laptop. I would stick with F41 for now.
As Fedora is a volunteer community, maybe no-one has written an tutorial for Fedora on an Arm notebook. But it should not be too difficult.
Fedora is not a ‘dark secret black box’ but it is a very large ecosystem so you do have to look around a lot and things are easy to miss.
Do you want to participate in testing, or do you just want the latest version? Let us know and you can have either.
How could this happen? None of the Fedoras are ready for aarch64 workstations.
For Ubuntu we have the concept initiative.
They chose 5 of the favorite devices to support those devicetree blobs.
They also jumped directly to Kernel 6.14 as of lots of bugs are fixed there.
Is anything related in work for F42?
So far, I have downloaded the last 3-4 F42 rawhide and now Beta 1.2 from here
But I have no chance to boot it from USB. I always get the grub menu and thats it. After that
- black screen
- reboot loop
So, I would really love to test, as I do it already, but there is nothing much to test - as of now.
The question is: When is Fedora 42 going to support arm devices?