[fedora-arm] Cubieboard 2 compatible kernel package

[David A. Marlin]

On 08/14/2014 06:26 AM, Andy Green wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I have a headless cubieboard 2 running a 3.4 kernel that came with the 
> board, but a Fedora rootfs already.
>
> It's been pretty workable, but now I need to compile an OOT kernel 
> module, and that's a big mess with the magic 3.4 kernel. The defconfig 
> it was built with has gone 404, although a tarball of the sources 
> (with different defconfigs) exists.
>
> So after reading the megathreads here about cubieboard 2 support 
> working, I went to look for a rawhide kernel package and give it a try.
>
> However after looking at Wikis that are out of date compared to the 
> mailing list, and an "Arm Koji" that only has 64-bit arm binaries in 
> the kernel package, I have no idea where to go to get the latest armhf 
> kernel package, U-Boot pieces etc.

ARMv7 is a primary architecture now, so all the packages are built in 
the main koji (not arm.koji), i.e., the F22 kernel-3.16 build for ARMv7 is:

   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=550198

3.17-rc0 builds are also available, but I'm not sure if they have been 
tested.


d.marlin
========

>
> I think this respin concept is not a good idea, I see rotting one-off 
> "respins" including one from Feb for Cubieboard. But all I want is to 
> upgrade the 3.4 kernel to use a Fedora one with latest upstream 
> pieces. My fedora rootfs is already in good shape.
>
> What steps should someone in this situation take to align themselves 
> with latest armv7 hf kernel and boot-related pieces that will work on 
> Cubieboard 2?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> -Andy
>
>
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