[fedora-arm] uImage-2.6.30-sheevaplug is definitely broken

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Sat Jan 8 17:20:52 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 12:28 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Just a note to say that I'm having the precise same problem described
> here:
> 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2010-December/thread.html#786
> 
> 'Mojibake' after the kernel is uncompressed.  No tty settings seem to
> fix it[*].
> 
> The wiki links to the uImage-2.6.30-sheevaplug image all over, but it
> is definitely broken either inherently or just with the latest
> SheevaPlug hardware.

We should probably update these wiki links to point to a common 'ARM
Kernel' page, which we can then use as a trampoline to a
currently-recommended kernel or a collection of kernels, and later
change to point to an RPM-based kernel solution. Any takers for this bit
of wiki gardening?

(Speaking of kernels, I'm going to get a couple students looking at
doing RPM-based kernels for ARM this semester. Some things from primary
archs won't apply, e.g., updating grub boot menus -- I think ARM with
uBoot will probably need some ugly pieces like a hard link to the
"current" kernel, at least to start. We also need to do an inventory to
figure out the smallest number of kernels necessary to support common
hardware).

-Chris



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