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

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Al Stone <ahs3 at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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 :).

It is an Armada 510 which is very similar to the Armada 610 in the
OLPC XO 1.75 and I believe this generation / series of chips is known
as Dove and it's code name is MMP2 (side note the XO-4 is MMP3). In
theory they will be able to use the XP kernel but I don't believe that
is the case at the moment at least from an upstream perspective. There
was a post as part of the XP upstreaming that mentioned they were
going to merge Kirkwood, Dove, XP etc into a single supported mvebu
(marvell embedded business unit) set of devices.

Peter