This is good news. I was going to ask the same question. There's a lot of SOHO NAS boxes coming out that run on the ARM architecture like the DNS-323 ( http://wiki.dns323.info/ ) that have a reasonable speed processor, some ram/flash etc that would be a good target for a mini fedora distro. Peter On Nov 16, 2007 9:22 PM, Manas Saksena <msaksena@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: fedora-arm-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-arm-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Pescitelli > > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:52 PM > > To: fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: activity > > > there does not seem to be much activity here...is this still alive ? > > Hi Paul, > > Thanks for asking. There is plenty of activity, just not so much > in the foreground. I am hoping that in the next few weeks this > will change significantly. I have some details below, and hopefully > this gives you a sense where things are headed. > > Much of the effort is in migrating to F8 and building on top of > it. Hopefully, we will have a fully usable F8 based repository > before the end of the year. > > The Fedora secondary architecture stuff is also coming together > and with luck we will be part of the F9 release as an official > secondary architecture. > > Fedora-8 ARM Repository > ------------------------ > > We have been building Fedora-8 packages for a while, and they > are available. There are two major issues facing us right now. > > 1. The debuginfo packages are busted because of an issue with > elfutils. > 2. Glibc 2.7 does not build for ARM today. The packages today > are built with glibc 2.6. > > Derivative Distributions > ------------------------ > > A key goal of this project is to create derivative distributions > based on the Fedora repository. Much of our effort is focused > on that front. Some of the efforts on that front. > > Fedora GIT Repository > --------------------- > > We have an effort to convert the Fedora CVS into a git repo. > With a git repository, it is easier to manage modifications > to packages that are needed for "downstream" derivative > distributions. You can see Lennert's post on this topic to > fedora-devel a few days back. > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-November/msg00561 > .html > > Custom Root File Systems > ------------------------ > > One of our goals is to support the ability to create custom > root file systems to match your needs. > > The tool we are currently using to build these is "pilgrim". > Once the F8 repository is available, we should have a few of > these available, and these can then become the starting point > for others. This is the same tool that is being used by OLPC > for creating the XO images. > > Small Footprint Root File Systems > --------------------------------- > > While on desktop/server end, people don't worry about bloat > as much, on much of the embedded end, you do. So, part of the > effort is to make it easier to build custom root file systems > that are not bloated. > > One of the idea there is to not use SysVinit, coreutils, bash > etc. (which pull in a lot of dependencies) and replace them > with busybox. You can then easily build root file systems for > wireless access points and other types of devices and not > gobs of space. > > The other effort there, to squeeze things down to even smaller > footprints is to use uclibc as the C-library. We have an effort > on that front as well. > > Cross-Compiler Toolchains > ------------------------- > > While we are doing native builds today, cross compilers and > cross-building of packages is useful for a number of reasons. > So, we have been spending time on that front too. This allows > (for e.g.) to build a uclibc based system, or to bootstrap > for a new ARM architecture variant (e.g., ARMv6) and so on. > > Best Regards, > Manas > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-arm mailing list > fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm > _______________________________________________ fedora-arm mailing list fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm
