Re: Yum offers kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.rpm for armv5tel F17 install, does not boot on qemu vexpress-a9

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El 15/02/13 04:30, Peter Robinson escribió:
[root@rpmbuild-arm var]# rpm -ql kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l | grep
boot
/boot/.vmlinuz-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.hmac
/boot/System.map-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l
/boot/config-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l
/boot/initramfs-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.img
/boot/vmlinuz-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l

Appears it's not in the F17 3.7 kernel, just F18.  I see it on
3.7.5-201.fc18 for instance.

Is there a way to generate a dtb file from kernel and kernel-devel, without
having to recompile everything? If so, how was this kernel tested to boot?
Not with kernel and kernel-devel you need source but you can do it
without recompiling everything.

Not sure what you'd achieve by doing so, what are you trying to achieve?

peter
As explained in the thread subject, kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.rpm provides a vmlinuz and initramfs that fail to boot under qemu. The previous version, kernel-3.5.6-1.fc17.armv5tel, does boot under qemu. From comments in the thread, I concluded that 3.7.3 needs a device tree file (dtb) that is not being provided by the rpm, as an additional parameter to qemu (-dtb neededfile.dtb). I am using -M vexpress-a9, so the machine model is supposedly fine.
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