On 01/15/2013 03:20 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 01/15/2013 11:43 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Initial A1X is in 3.8. So we'll get to have some fun. > > It's state is similar to that of mvebu in 3.7 in that it has the core > SoC support and serial console. There's nothing else really. Yea. Initial :) But that bodes well for 3.9 and later. I like the level of effort going into mvebu since 3.7, for example. I'm happy to see that this shows we'll have an upstream kernel soon for both. Jon. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
