arm December 2014

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Fedora ARM 12 on IGEPv2 (Beagle Board clone)
by Matthew Wilson 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

Hi all, I would like to introduce myself to the group. I have recently received an IGEPv2 board [1], which is based on the Beagle Board, but with wifi, bluetooth, ethernet, and more RAM. I'm still at the "wow, it's tiny and it runs Linux" stage. I should get a bit more time over the next month and Christmas to play around properly with it. I'm new to embedded development, but neither new to Linux nor ARM (writing my first ARM assembly some 15 years ago). However, for the past 6 years I've not even built a Linux kernel, preferring to use the default kernel in Fedora for simplicity :) Firstly, a thank you to those involved in Fedora ARM for getting it to this stage. If I get the time, I'd really like to contribute some (probably small) effort to help get Fedora ARM working well on the IGEPv2 and Beagle Board. As I progress, I'd like to know what I can do to help. In the meantime, I have some questions. Apologies in advance if these seem simple. 1) There are various different kernels from different sources. I'm used to there being a small set of "right" kernels (that is, Fedora's idea of "right") for x86. I fully appreciate that different ARM-based boards are quite different in capabilities (like different instruction set variants). a) Is there likely to be some standardised vanilla Fedora ARM kernel source? (Or is that simply the source RPM available for Fedora?) Then patches /could/ be offered for the more common systems (e.g. Beagle Board & clones, SheevaPlug). b) Would it then make sense to offer these as pre-built RPMs for common systems? c) Is there any guidance on which version is good to use as a base? I've seen quite different kernel versions being used (from 2.6.27 to 2.6.31). 2) I understand a little bit about the different calling conventions, FP differences (e.g. soft FPU versus VFP), and instruction set differences (v5 versus v7). a) Can the kernel can be safely built with a different instruction set targeted? (I know there are different optimisation options passed to GCC. Apologies if this seems a bit newbie-ish.) b) For FP-heavy programs (e.g. ogg encoding), is it possible to build the packages with VFP/NEON but still get them to work in a soft FPU system? I'd imagine any call to an external library would have to somehow be defined to use a different calling standard. 3) There seem to be some missing dependencies in the packages in the current Fedora ARM repository. For example, emacs is requiring libotf, which doesn't seem to be there in the repository. And likewise with the xorg-x11-font* packages needing ttmkdir. I'm confused as to how the RPM could have been successfully built without it. What am I missing? 4) I see there has been some discussion over unaligned data access. (Oh, I remember that from the ARM2 days.) It seems as if the Cortex-A8 cores allow unaligned data access when set up to do so [2]. Does this, in any way, help with the compatibility of packages targetting Cortex-A8? 5) I've managed to get various source packages missing from the Fedora ARM repositories to compile successfully (natively). I guess there is a reason why there are not in the repos right now -- is that reason down to time and priorities, or is there some blocking bugs with many of these packages? I look forward to being able to contribute something back into Fedora! Kind regards, Matthew [1] http://www.igep-platform.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4… [2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0344j/Beihgi…

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Fw: [PATCH 0/5] arm64, thunder: Enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family
by Robert Richter 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

Peter, today I posted first enablement patches for Cavium Thunder. See here for the thread: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406732794-20920-1-git-send-email-rric@kernel.org The patches are publicly hosted on kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git/?h=thunder/mast… We will add more patches for Thunder soon. Please take a look at the patches and consider them for integration into the arm64 Fedora kernel. Let me know if you have questions or how I could help adding Thunder support to Fedora. I will also be at Flock in Prague next week. Maybe we can meet there and start a discussion on this. Thanks, -Robert ----- Forwarded message from Robert Richter <rric(a)kernel.org> ----- Subject: [PATCH 0/5] arm64, thunder: Enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:06:29 +0200 From: Robert Richter <rric(a)kernel.org> To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas(a)arm.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon(a)arm.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt(a)kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> Cc: linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel(a)lists.infradead.org, Robert Richter <rrichter(a)cavium.com> Message-ID: <1406732794-20920-1-git-send-email-rric(a)kernel.org> Return-Path: <rric.net(a)gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain From: Robert Richter <rrichter(a)cavium.com> This initial patches enable Cavium Thunder SoC Family. The patches add Kconfig and devicetree support and then add Thunder to the defconfig. The last patch is unrelated to Thunder and enables the tmpfs mount option for a more convinient use of defconfig with distros. The Thunder system needs more enablement patches for subsystems and devices, this includes network, ahci, gicv3/gicv3-its, pci, smmu, kvm. We will send separate patch sets for these. All of them base on this initial patches. Patches are available here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/linux.git thunder/init Radha Mohan Chintakuntla (3): arm64, thunder: Add Kconfig option for Cavium Thunder SoC Family arm64, thunder: Add initial dts for Cavium Thunder SoC arm64, thunder: document devicetree bindings for Cavium Thunder SoC Robert Richter (2): arm64, defconfig: Enable Cavium Thunder SoC in defconfig arm64, defconfig: Enable tmpfs mount option .../devicetree/bindings/arm/cavium-thunder.txt | 10 + Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt | 1 + arch/arm64/Kconfig | 6 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/thunder-88xx.dts | 387 +++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 2 + 6 files changed, 407 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cavium-thunder.txt create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/thunder-88xx.dts -- 2.0.1 ----- End forwarded message -----

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No virtualisation in Fedora 21 on Mustang
by Marcin Juszkiewicz 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

In case you do not know yet: there is no virtualisation support in Fedora 21 on APM Mustang. Looks like one of 3.18-rc commits went into 3.17/stable tree and disabled it for us. Added into to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165290 [root@pinkiepie virt]# LC_ALL=C virsh create hrw-f21.xml error: Failed to create domain from hrw-f21.xml error: unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not available. Check that virtualisation is enabled in the host BIOS, and host configuration is setup to load the kvm modules. [root@pinkiepie virt]# dmesg|grep -i kvm [ 0.303959] kvm [1]: GICV size 0x2000 not a multiple of page size 0x10000 [ 0.303965] kvm [1]: error: no compatible GIC info found [ 0.304070] kvm [1]: error initializing Hyp mode: -6 [root@pinkiepie virt]# uname -a Linux pinkiepie 3.17.4-301.fc21.aarch64 #1 SMP Sun Nov 30 20:41:43 UTC 2014 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

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Someone interested in Pandaboard ES?
by Пламен Христов 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

Hello, Recently I tried F21 on that board. The result was a bit disappointing... Apperently Fedora has several issues with that hardware: - thermal shutdown, after message something like "kernel trap/thermal zone/core0" - wlcore module error - some other error, possibly related to swap module /Need to redo testing here, not captured on logs/ What do You think? What is advisable to do /if any/ in this situation? I have some time, maybe can provide ssh/vnc access, if somebody is interested to examine issues. However, in that case we probably have to do something with that termal shutdown. I'm not experienced with specific kernel things that maybe involved. Best regards!

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F21 VFAT boot partition?
by Scott M. Jones 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

I have a Beagleboard XM rev B and needed a VFAT boot partition in order to boot. Will these be provided for F21 and are they still needed? http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/21/Images/armhfp/ Thanks, Scott

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Fedora 21 Final Release Candidate 7 (RC7) for ARM aarch64 Available Now!
by Peter Robinson 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Release Candidate 7 is out. Updates include: - kernel 3.17.4-302 to fix serial consoles and KVM virtualisation - pungi/lorax fixes to fix el torito image generation to make isos bootable on aarch64 Please test! http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/compose/21_RC7/

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Fwd: Help!Failed to find a suitable stage1 device when using PXE installation.
by Brooks Hu 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Brooks Hu* <brooks.hu(a)gmail.com> Date: Friday, December 26, 2014 Subject: Help!Failed to find a suitable stage1 device when using PXE installation. To: arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Hi all, I am trying automatic PXE installation (Fedora 21 for AARCH64) on my Mustang board, but looks like kickstart can't work. Here comes the detail: Starting installer, one moment... find_file: stat /proc/device-tree/chosen/bootpath, No such file or directory anaconda 21.48.21-1 for Fedora-Server 21 started. * installation log files are stored in /tmp during the installation * shell is available on TTY2 * when reporting a bug add logs from /tmp as separate text/plain attachments 10:26:29 Not asking for VNC because of an automated install Starting automated install...... Generating updated storage configuration storage configuration failed: failed to find a suitable stage1 device ================================================================================ Installation 1) [x] Language settings 2) [!] Timezone settings (English (United States)) (Timezone is not set.) 3) [x] Installation source 4) [!] Software selection (ftp://192.168.1.1/F21/) (Nothing selected) 5) [!] Installation Destination 6) [x] Network configuration (No disks selected) (Wired (eth0) connected) 7) [!] Root password 8) [!] User creation (Password is not set.) (No user will be created) Not enough space in filesystems for the current software selection. An additional 2861.02 MiB is needed. Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation | UEFI version is 1.1.0-rh-0.13 Here comes the kick start config file(I modified based on a sample from certain website): ------------------------------------------------------------------------- text install lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us part efi --fstype=efi --size=300 --ondisk=sda part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=512 --ondisk=sda part / --fstype=ext4 --size=20096 --ondisk=sda part /vz --fstype=ext4 --size=40768 --ondisk=sda part swap --size=4000 bootloader --location=partition --ondisk=sda network --bootproto dhcp rootpw root auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 timezone --utc America/New_York reboot vznetcfg --net=virt_network1:eth0 vztturlmap $FS_SERVER http://myrepository.com nosfxtemplate %eztmplates --cache centos-6-x86_64 centos-6-x86 mailman-centos-6-x86_64 mailman-centos-6-x86 %packages @base @core @vz @ps %end I have tried all kinds of option combination, also deleted all the partitions, but it still can't work. Any suggestions/comments are welcomed! Best Regards, Brooks

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arm rawhide report: 20141231 changes
by Fedora compose checker 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

Compose started at Wed Dec 31 05:15:06 UTC 2014 New package: php-bantu-ini-get-wrapper-1.0.1-1.fc22 Convenience wrapper around PHP's ini_get() function New package: rubygem-opennebula-4.10.1-1.fc22 OpenNebula Client API Updated Packages: git-ftp-1.0.0-1.fc22 -------------------- * Tue Dec 30 2014 Eduardo Echeverria <echevemaster(a)gmail.com> - 1.0.0-1 - Bump to the new version of upstream Size change: 3910 bytes lxqt-common-0.8.0-10.fc22 ------------------------- * Mon Dec 29 2014 Helio Chissini de Castro <hcastro(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.0-10 - Rebuild against new Qt 5.4.0 Size change: 122 bytes mingw-angleproject-0-0.11.git.30d6c2.20141113.fc22 -------------------------------------------------- * Mon Dec 29 2014 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0-0.11.git.30d6c2.20141113 - Update to 20141113 snapshot (git revision 30d6c2) - Include all patches which were used by the Qt5 fork - Reverted some recent commits as they break mingw-qt5-qtwebkit 5.4 Size change: 532169 bytes Summary: Added Packages: 2 Removed Packages: 0 Modified Packages: 3 Size of added packages: 65254 (64 k) Size change of modified packages: 536201 (524 k) Size of removed packages: 0 (0 ) Size change: 601455 (587 k) Compose finished at Wed Dec 31 07:01:48 UTC 2014

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arm rawhide report: 20141230 changes
by Fedora compose checker 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Compose started at Tue Dec 30 05:15:11 UTC 2014 New package: nodejs-lazystream-0.1.0-1.fc22 Create streams lazily when they are read from or written to Updated Packages: OpenTK-1.1-1.4c.fc22 -------------------- * Sat Oct 25 2014 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> - 1.1-1.4c - New post release 1.1-4c - Remove no longer existing PDF form the doc Size change: -11282376 bytes cura-14.12.1-1.fc22 ------------------- * Mon Dec 29 2014 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> - 14.12.1-1 - Updated to 14.12.1 - No longer depend on firmware Size change: 71015 bytes drupal7-admin_menu-3.0-0.5.rc5.fc22 ----------------------------------- * Sat Dec 27 2014 Peter Borsa <peter.borsa(a)gmail.com> - 3.0-0.5.rc5 - Update to rc5 (BZ #1176868; release notes https://www.drupal.org/node/2396363) Size change: -2523 bytes drupal7-views_rss-2.0-0.4.rc4.fc22 ---------------------------------- * Sat Dec 27 2014 Peter Borsa <peter.borsa(a)gmail.com> 2.0-0.4.rc4 - Update to rc4 (BZ #1177441; releaste notes https://www.drupal.org/node/2398015) Size change: 4193 bytes perl-Test-WWW-Mechanize-Catalyst-0.60-1.fc22 -------------------------------------------- * Mon Dec 29 2014 Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel(a)seyman.fr> - 0.60-1 - Update to 0.60 Size change: 1114 bytes php-Assetic-1.2.1-1.fc22 ------------------------ * Mon Dec 29 2014 Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.1-1 - new release 1.2.1 Size change: 5996 bytes php-aws-sdk-2.7.12-1.fc22 ------------------------- * Sun Dec 28 2014 Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com> - 2.7.12-1 - Updated to 2.7.12 (BZ #1171050) Size change: 7330 bytes php-doctrine-annotations-1.2.3-1.fc22 ------------------------------------- * Sun Dec 28 2014 Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com> - 1.2.3-1 - Updated to 1.2.3 (BZ #1176942) Size change: 2382 bytes php-doctrine-inflector-1.0.1-2.fc22 ----------------------------------- * Sun Dec 28 2014 Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com> - 1.0.1-2 - %license usage * Sun Dec 28 2014 Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com> - 1.0.1-1 - Updated to 1.0.1 (BZ #1176943) Size change: 3240 bytes php-doctrine-orm-2.4.7-1.fc22 ----------------------------- * Sun Dec 28 2014 Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com> - 2.4.7-1 - Updated to 2.4.7 (BZ #1175217) - %license usage Size change: -33 bytes php-google-apiclient-1.1.2-1.fc22 --------------------------------- * Sat Dec 20 2014 Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.2-1 - new upstream release 1.1.2 - relocate autoloader to make it work with systemwide installation Size change: 24999 bytes php-pear-Net-URL2-2.1.1-1.fc22 ------------------------------ * Sun Dec 28 2014 Remi Collet <remi(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.1.1-1 - Update to 2.1.1 Size change: -889 bytes php-phpunit-PHP-CodeCoverage-2.0.14-1.fc22 ------------------------------------------ * Fri Dec 26 2014 Remi Collet <remi(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.0.14-1 - update to 2.0.14 Size change: -1067 bytes php-phpunit-PHPUnit-4.4.1-1.fc22 -------------------------------- * Sun Dec 28 2014 Remi Collet <remi(a)fedoraproject.org> - 4.4.1-1 - Update to 4.4.1 Size change: -1252 bytes python-pbr-0.10.7-1.fc22 ------------------------ * Mon Dec 29 2014 Alan Pevec <apevec(a)redhat.com> - 0.10.7-1 - update to 0.10.7 Size change: 3812 bytes rubygem-clutter-2.2.4-1.fc22 ---------------------------- * Sun Dec 28 2014 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.4-1 - 2.2.4 Size change: 1802 bytes rubygem-clutter-gtk-2.2.4-1.fc22 -------------------------------- * Sun Dec 28 2014 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.4-1 - 2.2.4 Size change: -1894 bytes rubygem-gdk3-2.2.4-1.fc22 ------------------------- * Mon Nov 10 2014 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.4-1 - Define arch as noarch (bug 1161947) Size change: -483 bytes rubygem-htmlentities-4.3.3-1.fc22 --------------------------------- * Sat Dec 27 2014 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka(a)fedoraproject.org> - 4.3.3-1 - 4.3.3 Size change: 3170 bytes rubygem-rake-compiler-0.9.4-1.fc22 ---------------------------------- * Sun Dec 28 2014 Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.4-1 - 0.9.4 Size change: -560 bytes Summary: Added Packages: 1 Removed Packages: 0 Modified Packages: 20 Size of added packages: 12809 (13 k) Size change of modified packages: -11162024 (-11 M) Size of removed packages: 0 (0 ) Size change: -11149215 (-11 M) Compose finished at Tue Dec 30 07:01:00 UTC 2014

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arm rawhide report: 20141229 changes
by Fedora compose checker 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Compose started at Mon Dec 29 05:15:04 UTC 2014 Summary: Added Packages: 0 Removed Packages: 0 Modified Packages: 0 Size of added packages: 0 (0 ) Size change of modified packages: 0 (0 ) Size of removed packages: 0 (0 ) Size change: 0 (0 ) Compose finished at Mon Dec 29 06:55:44 UTC 2014

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