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

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/26/2014 07:33 AM, Andy Green wrote:
>
> 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 That uboot is no longer being updated as everything is now upstream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.

Perhaps I came at it differently.  It was actually easy for me for some 
odd reason.  One dd step to get the right uboot.  For a while in the 
pre-alpha, I needed a special uboot for the Cubieboard2 direct from 
Hans; this is no longer the case though.

>
> 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
>
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