Hi all, Firstly, apologies for being so slow in replying. I had a flurry of activity over xmas with my IGEPv2, but since returning to work I've not been doing much with it. This is down to a lack of motivation on my part rather than having no time :( Thank you for your replies. I still have the medium-term goal to use it as a mini-server: simple things like local bookmark server (two laptops + desktop needing the same bookmarks), small fileserver (not masses of storage, but for sharing documents), print server, etc. I'd like to run it as a media player too (plugged into the TV) -- that's a longer-term goal. The Fedora 12 root image and packages worked well. I had an issue that a lot of packages are missing. For example, to get cups running, I had to build a lot of packages. I hit some circular dependency issue too (can't recall the package OTTOMH -- maybe a LaTeX one?) but that only seemed to be needed for generating documentation in the package. It was usually a case of "yum install", collect missing deps, download source RPM, rpmbuild --rebuild, collect missing deps, etc. (And using a microSD card for the rootfs was a mistake -- they are *so* slow at writing that doing any builds or package installs became painful. I now have a Samsung S1 mini -- low enough power that it doesn't need a powered hub.) I am interested in ARMv7-optimised builds -- but, more crucially, getting updates from mainline Fedora pulled across. I have seen the list of patches applied for ARM and wonder what the strategy would be for applying those to the mainline packages. I guess I ought to learn about koji if I'm *really* interested in building v7 packages... but the v5 ones work just fine for now. [My remaining issue is about the kernel. ISEE (makers of the IGEPv2) now have a git repository (yay). Their kernel is based off of the linux-omap 2.6.28-10 branch. The linux-omap main branch is a bit too "bleeding edge" for me, but 28-10 is a little old.] I have a few questions: - What can be done to promote Fedora ARM? - Are the koji builds of Fedora updates being pushed into the Fedora ARM repository? - Is there sufficient interest in armv7 builds to add that as a support variant? - Can we collect experiences of usage of Fedora ARM (devices, purpose of use, problems, etc.)? - What can I do to help? - Would a step-by-step guide for IGEPv2 (BeagleBoard will be very similar) be useful? And I shall make a concerted effort to be more active. :-) Kind regards, Matthew _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
