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

[Derek Atkins]

Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> writes:

> 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?

FWIW, I've been using http://sheeva.with-linux.com/sheeva/ for my Sheeva
kernels.

> (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

-derek

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