[fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Steven A. Falco <safalco at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 08/03/2012 09:37 AM, Jon wrote:
>> Have tried to get the kernel to build, and I remember these sites were helpful.
>>
>> https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner
>> http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/Building_Debian_From_Source_Code_for_Mele/
>>
>> Make sure that cgroups are enabled in your kernel.
>> Once you have the kernel build you can integrate with the latest userland image.
>>
>> Somebody on IRC suggested that the Allwinner patches may need
>> improvement before they could be accepted upstream?
>> It would be great if that happened, as Fedora only digests upstream kernel.
>>
>> Otherwise this could be a 3rd party spin like raspi?
>
> I'll take a close look at the kernel patches over the next day
> or two.  I am set up to cross-compile that, so it is mostly a
> question of the required settings for Fedora.  Is there a minimum
> allowed kernel version?  As in, nothing older than 3.xxx?  I ask
> because I tried a 2.6.34.9 kernel with F17 on my Ionics, and got
> lots of errors from udev and systemd.
>
> Also, is there a preferred procedure for bootstrapping initramfs?
> I assume the best way is to unpack an existing one, replace any
> kernel modules, and repack.  I don't see a way to run dracut in
> a cross-environment (i.e. from an x86).
>
>         Steve
>


I havent tried, but its possible to run fedora arm inside qemu, its
probably slow, but seems to work.




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