[fedora-arm] Building Fedora-ARM

[Kedar Sovani]

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 08:37 -0800, Chris Tyler wrote: 
> I've been running Fedora ARM for a short while, and am really impressed
> by the work that's been done. It seems that this will become even more
> important as new ARM-based devices -- tablets, home automation,
> netbooks, XO 1.75 -- hit the market.
> 
> I'd like to help with this initiative. I'm at Seneca College, and we're
> willing to host ARM builders and a Koji instance, with a goal of
> tracking kernels, packages, and updates as close to the primary archs as
> possible. I've got a small group working on this infrastructure, and we
> should have it fully up and running in March (next week is our study
> break).
> 

This is great! What kind of ARM boards do you have? Let us catch up on
irc and discuss further.

> I have a couple of questions:
> 
> (1) What's a good representative sample of systems to test on, in
> addition to a SheevaPlug, OpenRD, BeagleBoard, and HawkBoard?
> 
> (2) Since most ARM systems are initially booted with a prebuilt rootFS,
> Anaconda has little value. However, it seems that building the rootFS
> for ARM is not really any different from building a Live CD for
> i386/x86_64 except for the final output format (obviously, this would
> have to be done on an ARM system or in emulation so package scriptlets
> could run). I'm wondering if we can adapt the livecdcreator to have
> selectable output for various ARM devices, building images for SD cards
> (and so forth, as appropriate to each target device) that have the root
> FS plus the kernel with the right naming/file sequencing in the image.
> This would make it easier to build a rootFS with a particular package
> set. Any feedback on this idea?
> 

Yeah this makes sense, and as you mention above, this will be great once
we have more end-user(ish?) ARM devices available. 

> -Chris (ctyler on freenode)

Kedar.