Any wiki about using the rootfs made by stage1 as an NFS root mount point? On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:30:27PM -0700, Al Stone wrote: > Howdy. > > It's time to announce a little project I've been working on for the last > few weeks: the ARMv8 bootstrap project for Fedora. > > There has been a lot of interest in ARMv8 (also known as aarch64) in the > last few months since it was introduced by ARM. A 64-bit processor that > uses as little power as possible could provide an enormous cost savings > to the vast and growing data centers throughout the world. > > So, even though hardware is not yet available, we have started the work > needed to bring Fedora to ARMv8. Using the ARM provided Foundation > model (a platform simulator for ARMv8), we have been building up the > packages needed to eventually get to a full native build of Fedora. > Details and current status are here: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/AArch64 > > Of the six stages needed in the bootstrap of a new architecture, we > are in the middle of stage 2; these are therefore pretty early bits. > In the interest of full transparency in what we do, and in the spirit > of release early and release often, grab a copy and have fun! > > On the Fedora wiki, you will find instructions on where to find all > the bits and pieces used to construct the root file system image > that's been created so far, and how to use the ARM Foundation model > to do further work. And there is plenty to do :). > > If you'd like to help, read through the wiki pages above and get > yourself to the point where you can run the ARM Foundation model > using the Fedora root file system. Then find a package needing > some love and do what needs to be done for ARMv8 (the wiki explains > how). > > And if you have questions, you can find me (ahs3) on #fedora-arm on > IRC (Freenode), or ask on this mailing list; the more, the merrier. > > -- > ciao, > al > ----------------------------------- > Al Stone > Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. > ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx > ----------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
