On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Brendan Conoboy <blc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/30/2012 05:35 PM, "Andy Green (林安廸)" wrote: >> >> It's great that you're doing this, but I don't think dding partition + >> filesystems is a good idea. > > > It's definitely tricky to get right. The number of possible configurations > makes it tricky to do an efficient selection of images. I may end up doing a > combination tegra+omap+etc image to cut down the waste. > > >> We found that various "8GB" SD cards have different absolute numbers of >> available sectors, it can lead to eventual filesystem corruption if your >> image is slightly large than someone else's card. > > > Well, the image is being created out of a sparse file with 8000 1048576 byte > sectors. If that proves too many it would be little trouble to drop it down > to 7900 or something. We'll see how it goes in practice. > > >> If someone's going to try this they're probably OK running fdisk and >> using tarballs. > > > Yeah, the uboot enabled kernel tarball will probably be the most universally > useful. I personally had plenty of trouble marking working uboot files so > leveraging David Marlin's work on grubby will hopefully spare others that > trouble. Meanwhile, a number of people have asked for images they can dd, > so I'm trying to fulfill both needs. > > >> I've been using Peter's F17 alpha1 image and following progress with >> updates, it's been very good. It's stuck as of last week with >> gnome-shell problems though. But generally package completeness has >> been increasing really well last few weeks, great job. > > > What are the gnome-shell problems? Perhaps they're well known but I'm not > acquainted with them. If we're missing a package that will help things out > let me know and I'll put it in the next snapshot. It'll be dep issues, I'm awaiting the reopening of mainline so we'll get updates. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
