On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 08:37 -0800, Chris Tyler wrote: > I've been running Fedora ARM for a short while, and am really impressed > by the work that's been done. It seems that this will become even more > important as new ARM-based devices -- tablets, home automation, > netbooks, XO 1.75 -- hit the market. > > I'd like to help with this initiative. I'm at Seneca College, and we're > willing to host ARM builders and a Koji instance, with a goal of > tracking kernels, packages, and updates as close to the primary archs as > possible. I've got a small group working on this infrastructure, and we > should have it fully up and running in March (next week is our study > break). > This is great! What kind of ARM boards do you have? Let us catch up on irc and discuss further. > I have a couple of questions: > > (1) What's a good representative sample of systems to test on, in > addition to a SheevaPlug, OpenRD, BeagleBoard, and HawkBoard? > > (2) Since most ARM systems are initially booted with a prebuilt rootFS, > Anaconda has little value. However, it seems that building the rootFS > for ARM is not really any different from building a Live CD for > i386/x86_64 except for the final output format (obviously, this would > have to be done on an ARM system or in emulation so package scriptlets > could run). I'm wondering if we can adapt the livecdcreator to have > selectable output for various ARM devices, building images for SD cards > (and so forth, as appropriate to each target device) that have the root > FS plus the kernel with the right naming/file sequencing in the image. > This would make it easier to build a rootFS with a particular package > set. Any feedback on this idea? > Yeah this makes sense, and as you mention above, this will be great once we have more end-user(ish?) ARM devices available. > -Chris (ctyler on freenode) Kedar. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
