[fedora-arm] Fedora on Cubox, getting close. Pointers needed

[Al Stone]

On 10/18/2012 01:18 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> On 18 Oct 2012 20:29, "Jurgen Kramer" <gtmkramer at xs4all.nl
> <mailto:gtmkramer at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 10:21 -0600, Al Stone wrote:
>  > > On 10/18/2012 09:44 AM, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
>  > > > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 16:34 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>  > > >> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jurgen Kramer
> <gtmkramer at xs4all.nl <mailto:gtmkramer at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
>  > > >>> I am trying to get Fedora running on the cubox. I am getting
> close but
>  > > >>> no cigar yet.
>  > >
>  > > I haven't had much luck yet, either, but I also haven't been able to
>  > > spend a great deal of time with my CuBox (maybe all of an hour so
>  > > far).  I've been attempting an f17 rootfs, though.
>  > >
>  > > Is there some place I can go to and pick up the kernel/initrd you've
>  > > got and try it so that I can replicate what you're seeing?  Or, are you
>  > > just using the kernel source from SolidRun?
>  > >
>  > I got a bit further by using different memory addresses for the kernel
>  > and initrd. Systemd now starts but complains about missing autofs4 and
>  > cgroups.
>  > As kernel source and config I am using the SolidRun kernel sources
>  > enhanced with several patches (https://github.com/vDorst/linux) .
>  >
>  > I'll put up the kernel/initrd once it's done compiling with cgroups and
>  > autofs4 enabled.
>  >
>  > What would be needed for Fedora to support the CuBox? CuBox support is
>  > not upstream (yet).
>
> Upstream support in a unified kernel. From the little I've read Marvell
> plans on supporting this as part of the mvebu support as they mention
> supporting dove as part of it which is what I think the cubox is based on.

I don't know about the unified part, but I'll look into that.

I'm pretty sure the CuBox is a Marvell Armada 510 SoC (single CPU
version of the Armada XP 4-CPU chip).  In theory, it should even be
able to use the Armada XP kernel -- or so I've been told :).

> Peter
>
>  > Jurgen
>  >
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ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3 at redhat.com
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