[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

[Scott Sullivan]

On 10/08/2012 02:35 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 05:43:33AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>
>> I'm interested to know who is using Kirkwood, and who would miss it if
>> it went away. For now, we won't kill off ARMv5 because it is used in the
>> official rPi builds but that doesn't mean I'm not interested to know
>> whether we should put testing effort into Kirkwood for F18.
>>
>> My thought is that the latest plugs are moving to ARMv7, and so as the
>> cutting edge Linux distro, we should make plans for deprecating support
>> over the coming releases. This is not a call to drop support today. If I
>> can get numbers on how many people care, that will help.
>
> I bought several Kirkwood devices with the expectation to run Fedora on
> them and would like to test it at least on a Seagate Dockstar, but the
> little instructions and installer support always scared me away.

Till,

I've recently updated the Fedora install instructions for the Pogoplug 
with is in the same family of devices and leverages the same uboot 
update process that dockstar does.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/PogoplugUSBDisk

As long as uboot is configured correctly, the process is as simple as dd 
the image to a USB drive.

>
> It also includes instructions to update the boot loader and supports
> installing on USB, SD card and eSATA. The Fedora instructions only
> mention to dd an image on a SD card on the other hand.

You'll note that it's not Debian directly providing that support or 
information. It's the Debian community and specifically one user.

The same goes for Fedora, because of the man power requirements it is up 
to the community to support re-used consumer appliances like the 
Dockstar/Pogoplug. If you are successful in getting Fedora on your 
Dockstar, we would greatly appreciate a contribution of your experience 
and instructions on the wiki.

> Maybe Fedora ARM could reuse some of the information provided for Debian
> to ease installation of Fedora ARM as well.

The page I listed above does.