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

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/26/2014 06:40 AM, Peter Robinson 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 That uboot is no longer being updated as everything is now upstream in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.

And the one step to dd the right uboot is easy enough.  It would be nice 
if the installer were smarter and not just limited to the original list 
of 6 boards...

>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation#For_AllWinner_Devices
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