Arm Support In FMW

Summary

Fedora Media Writer will gain the ability to write ARM images to SD cards and other portable media.

Owner

Name: Martin Bříza
Email: mbriza@redhat.com
Release notes owner: Simon Clark (sclark)

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 26
Last updated: 2017-07-05
Tracker bug: #1432865

Detailed Description

With ARM (ARMv7A) being one of the primary architectures of Fedora, we should support writing the images to bootable media for devices with this architecture.

This means Fedora Media Writer will have to list the ARM images, offer their download and be able to unpack them reliably (as they're shipped LZMA-compressed - .xz). Memory card support should be improved, especially in terms of reading drive information - many SD card drivers report wrong names, sizes and media presence.

This will come along with many more features in FMW, such as fullscreen screenshot preview, automatic FMW update check on Windows and Mac, better reliability and performance improvements.

Benefit to Fedora

Especially Windows and Mac users will be able to write Fedora images easily to use it on their Raspberry Pi 2 and above and other supported ARM devices.

Scope

Proposal owners: Implementation of this Change

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: No changes nor coordination is needed

- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)