[fedora-arm] Fedora ARM VFAD - Help test Fedora 18 ARM TC1, kernels and device tree! - 2012-10-15

[Peter Robinson]

> Made good progress today. :)
> Was able to get Device Tree to work on both Panda ES and Trimslice.

Awesome!

> What works: appended DTB kernels. (cat the .dtb to the end of the
> zimage, then generate a new uImage)
>
> What does NOT work: loading the .dtb from u-boot (similar to the initrd)

It's a good start.

> One notable breakthrough was being able to boot the trimslice with the
> latest version of u-boot.
> (had to change boot.cmd to have root=/dev/mmcblk0p3)

OK, interesting to see why labels don't work.

> For the panda it would seem not all the parts of omap kernel are moved
> over to DT, some things do not work.

Not surprised as I believe 3.7 should be the end of the OMAP DT
support additions but it's good to know it actually works which is my
primary concern so that we know it has all the bits needed in F-18.

Peter