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

[Andy Green]

On 26 October 2014 18:40:55 GMT+08:00, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>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That uboot is no longer being updated as everything is now upstream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.
>>
>> Okay... but it does not seem to be present at +16 sectors on the sd
>image provided by Fedora.
>>
>> Honestly I would be surprised if it was since it exactly and
>incompatibly conflicts with the Cubieboard 2 uboot also required at +16
>sectors of the sd image.
>
>No, we don't provide any default uboot on the images by design because
>the image is designed to be used on a lot more devices than just the
>AllWinner devices.
>
>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation#For_AllWinner_Devices

Yeah.  I know it's difficult to do what you're doing.

Just looking through your list, the u-boots all conflict badly.

This is a terrible shame when we have a single kernel binary now.

Maybe someday there will be a 'single u-boot binary'.

-Andy