ARMv7 images for IoT

[Peter Robinson]

Hey All,

Just thought I'd send out a note that we now (FINALLY!) have images
composing for ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 for Fedora 33+

This is very new functionality and I've not widely tested it, it's
booting UEFI/grub2 like the other IoT architectures so it should work
exactly as you would expect.

I've just boot tested IoT on a RPi2 not even to provisioning state and
a traditional Fedora UEFI image on a orangepi so wider testing welcome
as are bug reports.

The latest nightlies for F-33 can be found here:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/iot/branched/IoT/armhfp/images/

Peter

[Andrea Battaglia]

Hi Peter,

I've implemented and run an EMEA wide Hackfest about cloud-native
development with quarkus on an IoT use case using fedora IoT 32 64bit on an
RPi 3B+ during the last 4 months months.
I'm keen to contribute to testing the new Fedora 33, if needed.

Kind regards,

Andrea

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 10:54 AM Peter Robinson 
wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Just thought I'd send out a note that we now (FINALLY!) have images
> composing for ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 for Fedora 33+
>
> This is very new functionality and I've not widely tested it, it's
> booting UEFI/grub2 like the other IoT architectures so it should work
> exactly as you would expect.
>
> I've just boot tested IoT on a RPi2 not even to provisioning state and
> a traditional Fedora UEFI image on a orangepi so wider testing welcome
> as are bug reports.
>
> The latest nightlies for F-33 can be found here:
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/iot/branched/IoT/armhfp/images/
>
> Peter
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[Troy Dawson]

Hi Peter,
I did some testing on both the f33 and f34 builds.
Fedora-IoT-33-20201011.0.armhfp.raw.xz
Fedora-IoT-34-20201012.0.armhfp.raw.xz

I got the same results with both images.

RPi2 - v1.1
- sdcard prepared by doing "xzcat <image> | dd bs=4M status=progress
of=<sd-card>"
Looks ok until it gets to this line in bootup
  Failed to start OSTree Prepare OS
It would then attempt to shut down and start up again, and again, and
again, always failing at that one line.

PCDuino3 nano light (AllWinner) (Yep, I still have them. :) )
- sdcare prepared by doing "arm-image-installer --image=<image>
--target=Linksprite_pcDuino3_Nano --media=<sd-card>
Console (HDMI) was very slow.  Like a serial cable with the baud rate wrong.
But it did attempt to boot up and certainly looked like it was reading
from the sd-card
After a while it failed and entered into emergency mode, where it asks
you to type journalctl for output, except I couldn't type anyone in.

Not the best report, but better to get the bugs in early.
Troy

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:54 AM Peter Robinson  wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Just thought I'd send out a note that we now (FINALLY!) have images
> composing for ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 for Fedora 33+
>
> This is very new functionality and I've not widely tested it, it's
> booting UEFI/grub2 like the other IoT architectures so it should work
> exactly as you would expect.
>
> I've just boot tested IoT on a RPi2 not even to provisioning state and
> a traditional Fedora UEFI image on a orangepi so wider testing welcome
> as are bug reports.
>
> The latest nightlies for F-33 can be found here:
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/iot/branched/IoT/armhfp/images/
>
> Peter
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[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 5:34 PM Troy Dawson  wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> I did some testing on both the f33 and f34 builds.
> Fedora-IoT-33-20201011.0.armhfp.raw.xz
> Fedora-IoT-34-20201012.0.armhfp.raw.xz
>
> I got the same results with both images.
>
> RPi2 - v1.1
> sdcard prepared by doing "xzcat <image> | dd bs=4M status=progress
>
> of=<sd-card>"
> Looks ok until it gets to this line in bootup
>   Failed to start OSTree Prepare OS
> It would then attempt to shut down and start up again, and again, and
> again, always failing at that one line.

So this issue should now be fixed with the latest nightly builds.
> PCDuino3 nano light (AllWinner) (Yep, I still have them. :) )
> sdcare prepared by doing "arm-image-installer --image=<image>
>
> --target=Linksprite_pcDuino3_Nano --media=<sd-card>
> Console (HDMI) was very slow.  Like a serial cable with the baud rate wrong.
> But it did attempt to boot up and certainly looked like it was reading
> from the sd-card
> After a while it failed and entered into emergency mode, where it asks
> you to type journalctl for output, except I couldn't type anyone in.

We rely on the firmware (U-Boot in this case) to be EBBR compliant and
provide the DT and I suspect the firmware is somewhat out of date for
this use case.
> Not the best report, but better to get the bugs in early.
> Troy
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:54 AM Peter Robinson  wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> > Just thought I'd send out a note that we now (FINALLY!) have images
> > composing for ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 for Fedora 33+
> >
> > This is very new functionality and I've not widely tested it, it's
> > booting UEFI/grub2 like the other IoT architectures so it should work
> > exactly as you would expect.
> >
> > I've just boot tested IoT on a RPi2 not even to provisioning state and
> > a traditional Fedora UEFI image on a orangepi so wider testing welcome
> > as are bug reports.
> >
> > The latest nightlies for F-33 can be found here:
> > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/iot/branched/IoT/armhfp/images/
> >
> > Peter
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