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

[Dan Horák]

Chris Tyler píše v So 08. 01. 2011 v 12:20 -0500: 
> 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).

We have a student in Red Hat Brno who will work on RPM-based kernels as
his bachelor thesis and it should include an improvement in grubby to
use the flash-kernel utility
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548422) Debian is
developing and using to actually flash the kernel to a supported range
of devices. We think the kernel installation workflow could be very
similar to the one used on x86.


Dan