[fedora-arm] Yum offers kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.rpm for armv5tel F17 install, does not boot on qemu vexpress-a9

Alex Villací­s Lasso a_villacis at palosanto.com
Fri Feb 8 20:00:42 UTC 2013


El 08/02/13 13:47, Brendan Conoboy escribió:
> On 02/08/2013 10:19 AM, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote:
>> A few days ago, I updated my qemu virtual machine, which runs F17 with
>> -M vexpress-a9. The yum update installed
>> kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.rpm . Today I got around to rebooting the
>> machine with the provided vmlinuz and initramfs. However, the boot
>> process stalls with no messages. Not even "Uncompressing Linux...". I
>> reverted to the previous kernel, kernel-3.5.6-1.fc17.armv5tel . What am
>> I doing wrong? Should I use a different qemu emulation? The strange
>> thing is that the vexpress-a9 emulation reports armv7l, so the
>> instruction set is supposed to be OK.
>
> You need to use a device tree blob with the 3.7 kernels on versatile express.  The latest f18 3.7 kernel includes the device tree you need under /boot.  Not sure about f17.  Don't worry about the armv7l bit, that's the right arch for armv5tel on 
> versatile express.
>
[root at rpmbuild-arm var]# rpm -ql kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l | grep boot
/boot/.vmlinuz-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.hmac
/boot/System.map-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l
/boot/config-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l
/boot/initramfs-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.img
/boot/vmlinuz-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l

What is the file that is supposed to appear?


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