[fedora-arm] [Fwd: [Test-Announce] Fedora 21 Beta Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Available Now!]

[Peter Robinson]

>>Then nothing due to no default console... edit
>>/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf on the SD
>>
>>append ro root=UUID=c078beec-18b2-44ae-aac5-e6fc275b45c5
>>console=ttyS0,115200 loglevel=8
>>
>>Then he boots into firstboot on serial console which is nice.  Ethernet
>>etc seems to work fine.
>
> Couple more findings
>
>  - Cubietruck Ethernet onboard is broken.  His phy negotiates the link OK but he cannot pass traffic.  Googling around other people get this from non-3.4 kernel, so it's something missing upstream I guess.
>
> Latest rawhide kernel (3.18.0-0.rc1.git2.1.fc22.armv7hl) and update to latest sunxi U-Boot ( e847610a41af2b @ https://github.com/jwrdegoede/u-boot-sunxi ) did not solve it, it's still broken.

That uboot is no longer being updated as everything is now upstream in
the mainline uboot. I'd use the one shipped with Fedora or upstream
u-boot 2014.10 GA release.

Also do you see the issue with the 3.17.x kernels from F-21? I'm not
seeing any issues with my Cubietruck on uboot 2014.10 with 3.17.x

> There's some nasty 'fex' thing on these boards I managed to avoid until now maybe it's related to that.

fex is AllWinner's equiv of DeviceTree, I think it's used by some
others too. Shouldn't be an issue with mainline u-boot or Fedora's.

>>So it's the usual Fedora goodness once you get over the hump, but does
>>not work out of the box on Cubie*.

Seems to work OK with my Cubieboard v1 and CubieTruck. Would be
interested how you get on with RC1 as is shouldn't be pulling in
rawhide stuff that TC4 did due to the fedora-release* mess.

Peter