Re: Announcing Fedora 18 Beta for Allwinner A10 based devices

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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:50 AM, David Marlin <dmarlin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm very happy to announce the availability of Fedora 18 Beta for
>> Allwinner A10 based devices. This release is based on the official
>> Fedora 18 beta for ARM images.
>
>
> Do you have a kernel RPM for the A10 yet?  I know Fu Wei was working on
> packaging the 3.4 A10 kernel, but I'm not sure if you have discussed this
> with him.
>
>
>>
>> You can download it here:
>> http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/contrib-images/hansg
>
>
> will do.
>
>
>>
>> It is important to read the README, the image standard comes without
>> u-boot pre-loaded since u-boot is board specific. The image includes
>> a user-friendly simple script to install the right u-boot for
>> your board, but if you simply xzcat the image to an sdcard, and then
>> boot your device with the sdcard, things will *not* work.
>
>
>
> Have you considered adding support for the A10 boards (Gooseberry,
> Cubieboard, etc.) to the uboot-tools package:
>
>   http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=98609
>
> There is already support for several ARM boards (beagle, origen, panda,
> etc.), so there are examples of how to add a new board.  Then we can simply
> install the right U-Boot when the image is created.

Not possible as the support for the A10 isn't upstream in uboot as yet
and it's still currently a fork. Like the kernel there are plans to do
it but it's not been done as yet.

Peter
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