hello guys
what do you think about creating a kernel-rpm for fedora-arm, I think should be useful to have a kernel for my sheevaplug with nfs, ipv6, and other interestings things.
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:04:39PM -0300, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
what do you think about creating a kernel-rpm for fedora-arm, I think should be useful to have a kernel for my sheevaplug with nfs, ipv6, and other interestings things.
Sounds good. Actually, I think any Fedora/ARM provided kernel should just enable the same drivers and features as the Fedora kernel does on x86.
It is not (yet) possible to build a single ARM kernel that works on more than one ARM SoC, so the kernel build process would have to build a bunch of different images for different hardware platforms, which would require some kernel .spec file hacking. (But, there's already some support in the spec file for something like this, so it probably wouldn't be too hard to do.)
On top of that, there might be some hacking needed to produce working initramfs'es on ARM, and we might have to add some tools to flash kernel images on some popular boards, perhaps some tools to modify the uboot environment from within Linux, etc.
Lennert Buytenhek píše v Po 08. 03. 2010 v 09:14 +0100:
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:04:39PM -0300, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
what do you think about creating a kernel-rpm for fedora-arm, I think should be useful to have a kernel for my sheevaplug with nfs, ipv6, and other interestings things.
Sounds good. Actually, I think any Fedora/ARM provided kernel should just enable the same drivers and features as the Fedora kernel does on x86.
It is not (yet) possible to build a single ARM kernel that works on more than one ARM SoC, so the kernel build process would have to build a bunch of different images for different hardware platforms, which would require some kernel .spec file hacking. (But, there's already some support in the spec file for something like this, so it probably wouldn't be too hard to do.)
On top of that, there might be some hacking needed to produce working initramfs'es on ARM, and we might have to add some tools to flash kernel images on some popular boards, perhaps some tools to modify the uboot environment from within Linux, etc.
initramfs - dracut works very well with a configuration that doesn't include unneeded stuff to keep the image small flashing kernel - flash-kernel utility from Debian should work (package under review) modify uboot - uboot has tools (fw_setenv) that can modify the uboot environment, a package is work-in-progress
So the underlying infrastructure should be almost ready.
Dan
On Monday 08 March 2010 01:23:07 Dan Horák wrote:
flashing kernel - flash-kernel utility from Debian should work (package under review)
See also 0xFFFF: "The 0pen Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher". I believe (but haven't tested) the latest hg version works with N900: http://www.nopcode.org/0xFFFF/
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