5:33 p.m.
Hi all,
We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
which is provided in the filesystem.
A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
you run into so that we can fix them.
thanks,
Lennert
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8:33 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:33:31 +0100
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> wrote:
Hi all,
We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
which is provided in the filesystem.
A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
you run into so that we can fix them.
How long until you have instructions on installing Fedora on the
n800/n810? :)
josh
1:31 a.m.
On Jan 17, 2008 3:33 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:33:31 +0100
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> wrote:
>
> A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
>
> There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
>
> Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
> you run into so that we can fix them.
How long until you have instructions on installing Fedora on the
n800/n810? :)
Don't forget about my Linksys NSLU2...
8:13 a.m.
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 3:33 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:33:31 +0100
> Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> wrote:
>>
>> A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
>
> How long until you have instructions on installing Fedora on the
> n800/n810? :)
Don't forget about my Linksys NSLU2...
I'd love to get Fedora on my NSLU2 -- although that'll probably require
me to find/buy a USB hard drive. :-)
Jima
7:31 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:13:05AM -0600, Jima wrote:
>>>A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in
QEMU is here:
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
>>
>>How long until you have instructions on installing Fedora on the
>>n800/n810? :)
>
>Don't forget about my Linksys NSLU2...
I'd love to get Fedora on my NSLU2 -- although that'll probably require
me to find/buy a USB hard drive. :-)
That would certainly be the easiest way.
There are ways of reducing footprint so that your fs will fit in flash
(some of which used internally), but the more effective ones are
generally one-way, and things like 'yum update' are rather hard to
keep working after you've slimmed your filesystem down to 4MB. :-)
7:48 a.m.
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:13:05AM -0600, Jima wrote:
> I'd love to get Fedora on my NSLU2 -- although that'll probably require
> me to find/buy a USB hard drive. :-)
That would certainly be the easiest way.
There are ways of reducing footprint so that your fs will fit in flash
(some of which used internally), but the more effective ones are
generally one-way, and things like 'yum update' are rather hard to
keep working after you've slimmed your filesystem down to 4MB. :-)
Well, the semi-obvious question to me is, could one use the flash for
/boot (or such), and load the drivers for the USB et al via initrd? Or
would that even fit? (Looking at x86_64, at least, my kernel is 1.9mb and
my initrd is 3.8mb -- ouch.) Or is there some other intermediary that
could load an OS wholly installed on a USB drive? I can't claim to be an
expert with the NSLU2 -- I haven't really touched it since I got OpenWRT
on it. (And before you ask why I even bought one: I got it secondhand.
Cheap.)
I would dream of trying to install/run Fedora without external media on
the thing -- it was most certainly a joke. :-)
Jima
7:28 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:33:30PM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
>
> The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
> Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
>
> The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
>
> The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
> prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
> into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
> endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
> which is provided in the filesystem.
>
> A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
>
> There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
>
> Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
> you run into so that we can fix them.
How long until you have instructions on installing Fedora on the
n800/n810? :)
An unmodified Fedora/ARM root filesystem is probably too big to fit
inside the flash of an n800/n810. We have a bunch of tools for
footprint optimisation, but those need some more work before we'll
make them generally available.
Of course, if you really want, you could run the NFS-enabled kernel
images on your n800/n810 and chroot into a Fedora/ARM filesystem
mounted over NFS. :-)
2:12 a.m.
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:33 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
Hi all,
We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
FWIW, I ported OOo to arm-eabi last year, the "vanilla" rpms of the time
are at...
http://ooo.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/cws/upload/armeabip...
and that work is now integrated into 2.4.0 as in rawhide so in theory
for F9 it should build out of the box.
At the time there was no ecj/libgcj port to arm-eabi so the extra flag
to OOo's configure required to workaround that was --without-java, I
see java-1.5.0-gcj-devel in the repo now so that's presumably
unnecessary now.
C.
3:51 a.m.
Caolan McNamara writes:
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:33 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
>
> The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
> Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
FWIW, I ported OOo to arm-eabi last year, the "vanilla" rpms of the time
are at...
http://ooo.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/cws/upload/armeabip...
and that work is now integrated into 2.4.0 as in rawhide so in theory
for F9 it should build out of the box.
At the time there was no ecj/libgcj port to arm-eabi so the extra flag
to OOo's configure required to workaround that was --without-java, I
see java-1.5.0-gcj-devel in the repo now so that's presumably
unnecessary now.
I certainly hope so. Lennert and I have done a lot of work to get gcj
working on ARM EABI, so if anything fails I'd appreciate a heads-up.
Yeah, I know it's rather slow. :-)
Andrew.
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8:46 a.m.
New subject: [fedora-arm] Re: Fedora 8/ARM available
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:12:03AM +0000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
>
> The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
> Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
FWIW, I ported OOo to arm-eabi last year, the "vanilla" rpms of the time
are at...
http://ooo.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/cws/upload/armeabip...
and that work is now integrated into 2.4.0 as in rawhide so in theory
for F9 it should build out of the box.
Cool! Is there any place that documents the changes necessary for
2.3 so that we can also provide a (separate) set of 2.3 rpms for F8?
At the time there was no ecj/libgcj port to arm-eabi so the extra
flag
to OOo's configure required to workaround that was --without-java, I
see java-1.5.0-gcj-devel in the repo now so that's presumably
unnecessary now.
Yep, in theory. :)
9:23 a.m.
New subject: [fedora-arm] Re: Fedora 8/ARM available
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:46 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
Cool! Is there any place that documents the changes necessary for
2.3 so that we can also provide a (separate) set of 2.3 rpms for F8?
Should in theory just be
http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/patches/workspace.armoabiport01.patch
+
http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/patches/workspace.armeabi01.patch
Though if OOo fails to register components or start up then you
might need to make additional changes to some makefile.mks that
reference "VERSIONMAP" to reuse the i386 map files for arm, all of
which was fixed up for 2.4. I don't remember if its strictly necessary
to fix that in 2.3 or not.
C.
2:23 a.m.
Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
Hi all,
We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
which is provided in the filesystem.
A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
you run into so that we can fix them.
I should have bought something else/bigger than my WRT54, I guess :-)
-of
8:40 a.m.
New subject: [fedora-arm] Re: Fedora 8/ARM available
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:23:10AM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
>
> The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
> Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
>
> The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
>
> The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
> prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
> into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
> endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
> which is provided in the filesystem.
>
> A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
>
> There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
>
> Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
> you run into so that we can fix them.
I should have bought something else/bigger than my WRT54, I guess :-)
Isn't the WRT54 MIPS based with 4M of RAM or so? :)
8:48 a.m.
New subject: [fedora-arm] Re: Fedora 8/ARM available
On Jan 17, 2008 2:40 PM, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:23:10AM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> > Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
> >
> > The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> > little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
> > Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
> >
> > The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
> >
> > The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
> > prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
> > into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
> > endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
> > which is provided in the filesystem.
> >
> > A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
> >
> > There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
> >
> > Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
> > you run into so that we can fix them.
>
> I should have bought something else/bigger than my WRT54, I guess :-)
Isn't the WRT54 MIPS based with 4M of RAM or so? :)
Yes I think so. They're Broadcom chips which I'm pretty sure uses a MIPS32 core.
But on the other hand my Dlink DNS-323 is a 500Hmz Marvell ARM chip. A
storage Fedora sub distro would be cool.
Peter
5:54 p.m.
New subject: [fedora-arm] Re: Fedora 8/ARM available
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:48:56PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > We are proud to announce the availability of a(n
unofficial)
> > > Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
> > >
> > > The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> > > little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
> > > Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
> > >
> > > The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info:
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
> > >
> > > The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the
> > > prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed
> > > into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little
> > > endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum,
> > > which is provided in the filesystem.
> > >
> > > A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here:
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu
> > >
> > > There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at:
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO
> > >
> > > Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues
> > > you run into so that we can fix them.
> >
> > I should have bought something else/bigger than my WRT54, I guess :-)
>
> Isn't the WRT54 MIPS based with 4M of RAM or so? :)
Yes I think so. They're Broadcom chips which I'm pretty sure uses a MIPS32 core.
But on the other hand my Dlink DNS-323 is a 500Hmz Marvell ARM chip. A
storage Fedora sub distro would be cool.
I'll hack up prebuilt kernel packages for a bunch of popular ARM
boards, probably once support for Orion (i.e. the ARM CPU you speak
of) hits mainline (it's queued for 2.6.25.)
5:40 p.m.
New subject: [fedora-arm] Re: Fedora 8/ARM available
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:36:33AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
This is a great day for Fedora, thank you Lennert!
Thanks. :)
Hm, my package libnjb does not build, no good. :-(
It is built?
f8-updates-arm/libnjb-2.2.6-2.fc8.armv5tel.rpm
f8-updates-arm/libnjb-debuginfo-2.2.6-2.fc8.armv5tel.rpm
f8-updates-arm/libnjb-devel-2.2.6-2.fc8.armv5tel.rpm
f8-updates-arm/libnjb-examples-2.2.6-2.fc8.armv5tel.rpm
A consequence of not being hooked up in the main Fedora build system
is that we don't do builds in the same order as they are done on
i386/x86_64/ppc/ppc64. By the time libnjb was queued for building,
an F8 update had already been issued for it, and the way we've set
things up means that the F8 base package won't be built anymore if
a newer version of the package (i.e. the update) has already been
built.
6:13 p.m.
On Jan 14, 2008 6:33 PM, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> wrote:
Hi all,
We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
Great news! Would it be possible to install this on Scratchbox?
Maemo's SDK is already using it.
--
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