[fedora-arm] Each boot on my Cubietruck, and different MACaddr

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/15/2014 05:31 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>> This is NOT a question about Redsleeve.  Rather about the F19 uboot
>>>> that I use with RSEL.  It would impact any F19 Cubietruck system, and
>>>> as Hans has pointed out any F20 Cubietruck system.
> We didn't support any AllWinner devices in the F-19 u-boot.

I will end this thread with:  Fascinating.



>
> I have no idea what RSEL is, it's certainly nothing to do with Fedora
> or a Red Hat product, as the acronym might indicate, if it's an
> "Enterprise Linux" as the acronym leads me to believe I suggest you go
> to which ever company is providing support for it.
>
> This is a Fedora list and as I've mentioned a number of times before
> not a place for any queries about Redsleeve whether you're using any
> random component of Fedora, whether it be a mainline component or
> remix.
>
>>> Note that Fedora 19's u-boot has zero support for the Cubietruck. so
>>> that is not what you are using, only Fedora 21's and newer u-boot have
>>> support for the cubietruck. I am not sure what bits you are actually
>>> using but it does not sound like fedora is in any of it.  if you have
>>> the issues with f21 or newer then we can work on them and figure out
>>> what is happening.
>>
>> Check Hans de Goede's post on this list on 7/18/13
>>
>> "Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20
>> support"
>>
>> There are specific instructions for the Cubie at
>>
>> http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/cb2/installation/cb2_fedora_19_card_install
>>
>> Just specify cubietruck rather than cubieboard2.
> Yes, this is a _REMIX_ which isn't supported as part of Fedora.
> Neither the uboot or the kernel from the remix are supportable by the
> ARM project. We barely have the resources to support the stuff we ship
> upstream in the main Fedora.
>
>> I believe he stopped with RC3, which is what I and others are using.  The
>> F20 was done by someone else, but I think Hans said the same uboot.
>>
>> One thing going for F19 and F20, is that there is video support, so for
>> those few systems where I need the video interface, I am using it.  When I
>> use the F19 device modules with RSEL, I do get video support, but since
>> these are servers, I don't use it.
> This uses an ancient 3.4 kernel with custom patches. We don't have the
> time, resources or desire to support a kernel from the age of the
> dinosaurs in terms of the speed of ARM kernel development.
>
>> Also for Centos7-arm, Karanbir, back on 7/2/14, was instructing how to start
>> with a F19 armv7 repo as the starting point for building C7arm.  But there
>> has been no traffic on that list really since early August.
> So it's a question for CentOS. This is Fedora :-) I'm well aware of
> what Karanbir is using for CentOS bring up but it doesn't mean that
> the Fedora mailing list is a suitable location to discuss CentOS
> related things because it has a tenable, at best, link back to the
> Fedora ARM project.
>
>> I look forward to finishing these conversion projects so I can get back to
>> testing F21.
> So once you're back to testing Fedora feel free to come back here with
> Fedora ARM mainline based questions.
>
> Peter
>