On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > >>> >> I have a Nokia N810 at hand (OMAP2 / ARMv6); while it's not quite what >> Ubuntu and Nokia are targeting (9.04 and Maemo 5 targets ARMv7), it'll >> be interesting to see how well Fedora runs on it. I'd have to get a >> larger SDHC card, read up on how to boot the device from it (as far as >> I remember, not that troublesome), and work out what binary blobs are >> needed. > > Ubuntu is actually building 9.04 with: "-march=armv5t > -mtune=cortex-a8" (1) so it would work on your Nokia N810 (just not > optimal)... > > Nokia was sponsoring a project called Mojo-Handhelds (2) that did do > an optimized 'armv6' version of Ubuntu 8.04, however their future is > in question at the moment. > >> Having a real ARMv7 device would be much better, though. Does Nokia >> provide those to developers, and would they lend development boards >> (even remote access would be better than nothing) for non-Maemo use? > > Have you taken a look at the TI's beagleboard? 5xxMhz ARMv7 cortex-a8? > (3) Add a usb harddrive and usb ethernet adapter and they work great > for development. > That appears to be just ideal -- though if an all-in-one notebook is coming soon, I don't think I can justify the investment myself: 1. board = $150 2. USB serial adapter + serial cable 3. USB network card + USB hard disk (I can reuse the latter, but the former is an added expense) If the final product ends up under $200, setting up my own board would double the total cost. > I currently have one setup running 24/7 with ssh access available to > developers, it's currently building native kernels (beagleboard, > omap-3evm, etc) for all the debian variants i work with (debian, mojo, > ubuntu) each in a separate chroot. > > I'm in the process* of adding fedora chroot's, (with an end goal of > attempting to build an armv7 variant using the koji build system). > > * rootfilesystem runs native on the beagle, now just to make the chroot work... Could I possibly get an account on yours? Are there any tasks on which other Fedora developers can help? Regards, -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora • salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MacPorts • hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ fedora-arm mailing list fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm
