On 10/08/2012 02:35 PM, Till Maas wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 05:43:33AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
I'm interested to know who is using Kirkwood, and who would miss it if
it went away. For now, we won't kill off ARMv5 because it is used in the
official rPi builds but that doesn't mean I'm not interested to know
whether we should put testing effort into Kirkwood for F18.
My thought is that the latest plugs are moving to ARMv7, and so as the
cutting edge Linux distro, we should make plans for deprecating support
over the coming releases. This is not a call to drop support today. If I
can get numbers on how many people care, that will help.
I bought several Kirkwood devices with the expectation to run Fedora on
them and would like to test it at least on a Seagate Dockstar, but the
little instructions and installer support always scared me away.
Till,
I've recently updated the Fedora install instructions for the Pogoplug
with is in the same family of devices and leverages the same uboot
update process that dockstar does.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/PogoplugUSBDisk
As long as uboot is configured correctly, the process is as simple as dd
the image to a USB drive.
It also includes instructions to update the boot loader and supports
installing on USB, SD card and eSATA. The Fedora instructions only
mention to dd an image on a SD card on the other hand.
You'll note that it's not Debian directly providing that support or
information. It's the Debian community and specifically one user.
The same goes for Fedora, because of the man power requirements it is up
to the community to support re-used consumer appliances like the
Dockstar/Pogoplug. If you are successful in getting Fedora on your
Dockstar, we would greatly appreciate a contribution of your experience
and instructions on the wiki.
Maybe Fedora ARM could reuse some of the information provided for Debian
to ease installation of Fedora ARM as well.
The page I listed above does.
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