I've been doing some work on Fedora-ARM, and have been looking into
adding ARM support to Anaconda. My first step was just to get Anaconda
to be aware of the ARM architecture. I have now been able to create a
disk-image for an ARM system (Trim Slice) using livemedia-creator and a
kickstart file. This involved some changes to both Anaconda and Lorax.
Attached is a patch against anaconda-17.21 from F17. Please let me know
if the changes I am making are acceptable, and if so, what I need to do
to push these upstream.
I plan to continue working on this to make the correct kernel selection
and add support for the U-Boot bootloader (used by many ARM systems). I
am currently handling the bootloader setup in the %post section of the
kickstart config file, which works for now to create a bootable image.
Please CC me on any replies, as I am not currently on this list.
Thank you,
d.marlin
--- ./pyanaconda/iutil.py.orig 2012-04-02 13:14:44.000000000 -0400
+++ ./pyanaconda/iutil.py 2012-04-02 16:56:14.174192002 -0400
@@ -763,6 +763,9 @@
def isSparc():
return os.uname()[4].startswith('sparc')
+def isARM():
+ return os.uname()[4].startswith('arm')
+
def getArch():
if isX86(bits=32):
return 'i386'
@@ -776,6 +779,8 @@
return 'alpha'
elif isSparc():
return 'sparc'
+ elif isARM():
+ return 'arm'
else:
return os.uname()[4]
--- ./pyanaconda/platform.py.orig 2012-04-02 13:14:44.000000000 -0400
+++ ./pyanaconda/platform.py 2012-04-02 18:28:45.294192000 -0400
@@ -332,6 +332,15 @@
start /= long(1024 / disk.device.sectorSize)
return start+1
+class ARM(Platform):
+ _bootloaderClass = bootloader.GRUB2
+ _boot_stage1_device_types = ["disk"]
+ _boot_mbr_description = N_("Master Boot Record")
+ _boot_descriptions = {"disk": _boot_mbr_description,
+ "partition": Platform._boot_partition_description}
+
+ _disklabel_types = ["msdos"]
+
def getPlatform(anaconda):
"""Check the architecture of the system and return an instance of a
Platform subclass to match. If the architecture could not be determined,
@@ -358,5 +367,7 @@
return EFI(anaconda)
elif iutil.isX86():
return X86(anaconda)
+ elif iutil.isARM():
+ return ARM(anaconda)
else:
raise SystemError, "Could not determine system architecture."
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