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On 8 Jul 2013 02:01, "Jochen De Smet" <<a href="mailto:jochen.arm@leahnim.org">jochen.arm@leahnim.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 7/7/2013 14:39, Dennis Gilmore wrote:<br>
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>> On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:08:55 -0400<br>
>> Jochen De Smet <<a href="mailto:jochen.arm@leahnim.org">jochen.arm@leahnim.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> PS: Is there a generic armv5tel root fs for F19 anywhere? Don't see a<br>
>>> link on the wiki yet.<br>
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>> software floating point support was dropped in Fedora 19. which means<br>
>> no more armv5tel rpms post f18's life.<br>
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> Too bad, armv5tel doesn't seem that old yet. But I guess things are just moving fast<br>
> in the arm world right now.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Anything not ARMv7 (basically Cortex-A* and yes I've radically generalised that definition) has been EOLed by ARM. The only v5 platforms we ever supported was the Kirkwood (we briefly supported versatile as a qemu guest before moving to versatile express) and that only supports ddr1 memory which is now expensive and ARM made the Cortex-A5 platform which basically covered the last power/price window that Kirkwood covered so ARMv5 was a lot of work for diminishing return and users.</p>
<p dir="ltr">>> tarballs are broken for root filesystems and will never be produced by<br>
>> fedora again.<br>
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> This looks like it'll be a pain in the ass though. Are there any instructions for installation<br>
> without a removable media ? Don't immediately see any on the installation page of the<br>
> wiki.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Tar balls cause a number of problems because if not used properly you lost all the special bits like xattr which are now used by a number of core dependences of the OS which made it problematic when trying to support newbies over IRC etc.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can do a net boot using uboot and kickstart install and that's been tested for calxeda at least I believe. I think it might be a bit problematic specifying a dtb for boot but I'm not sure of the details.</p>
<p dir="ltr">For tablet style services there's been discussing means of injecting the image like you'd flash a new version of android but if someone is actually working on that I'm not aware of it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Peter</p>