On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:30:31PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Sorry for jumping in at them middle of the thread, I skimmed > over it, without realizing that this is something I'm very much > interested in. As you probably have seen I plan to add > official allwinner support to F-21: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AllwinnerSunxiSupport > > I personally like what I'm doing with the Allwinner remix images > better then the 2 images to dd idea. > > What I've there is: > 1) A boards dir on the boot partition which contains > u-boot .bin files as well as dtb files for all supported > boards > > 2) A script "select-boards.sh" which can be run from the sdcard > when inserted into any linux machine (*), which then presents > a (ncurses) menu to the user allowing the user to select his > board, and then does all the needed setup to get the image > ready for that board. While there is nothing wrong with select-boards.sh (I've used it myself), I hate having to examine a script that I have to run as root on my host computer, that is going to overwrite some /dev/sdX device. I'd prefer the ~100 boot images in a directory option, if it meant that I could just use regular unxz/dd commands. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
