-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:20:17 -0700 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. i think we should only make the image 2 gb using domething like "dd if=/dev/zero of/raw/disk bs=1M count=2048" cound could be 2000 also then it should work everywhere. > > If someone's going to try this they're probably OK running fdisk and > > using tarballs. the idea is to get to a point where its simple to deploy lower the barrier of entry. > 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. > there is gnome 3.4.0 in testing on primary now there is a change it will get pushed to stable for beta on monday if not its probably 2 weeks away. What we need to do is come up with a set of F17 beta deliverables and work really hard in the next 2 weeks to deliver a F17 Beta. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk93GjwACgkQkSxm47BaWffvhwCgg3VtFwVUF2FVBWPL0tMMA6Ik yJ4AoJEKuHTrJCBlyv7JZgGf5LAqYxWE =MCFP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
