[fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

[Jon]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Steven A. Falco <safalco at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 08/03/2012 06:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Steven A. Falco <safalco at optonline.net> wrote:
>>> I've picked up a Mele A1000 set top, which uses the Allwinner A10 CPU.
>>> I don't see a Fedora port for this one yet, so I might take a shot at
>>> it.  But first I wanted to ask if anyone else has already started this?
>>>
>>> The CPU is a Cortex A8, and there is an Ubuntu port, as well as its
>>> native Android OS.
>>
>> None of the A10 kernel source code is upstream. It's something I would
>> like to support at some point in time as there's a lot of cheap and
>> interesting devices coming out with the chip from Netbook form factor
>> through to stick PCs. It should be doable as it's only kernel stuff
>> that's needed and it should run fine with the standard hardfp builds
>> but your milarge may vary.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Ok - I have Fedora 17 running on the Mele.  It is quite a hack, but it
> is usable (yum merrily installing the dev tools as we speak).
>
> Here is the recipe:
>
> 1) grab and cross-compile a copy of the kernel from:
>         git://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner.git
>    (use branch allwinner-v3.0-android-v2 with sun4i_defconfig)
>
> 2) grab http://hands.com/~lkcl/mele-ubuntu-lucid.img.lzma and write it
>    to an SD card (don't forget to decompress it).  Afterwards, use
>    gparted to expand the ext partition to fill the SD card.
>
> 3) Mount the various partitions of the SD card on a host machine.  On
>    the fat partition, replace uImage with the one you just built.  On
>    the ext partition, blow everything away, and replace with an untar of:
>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Images/armhfp/Fedora-17-armhfp-console.tar.xz
>
> 4) Install the modules that go with the kernel you built to the ext
>    partition (into /lib/modules/3.0.38+).
>
> 5) Stick the SD card in the Mele, and it should boot.
>
> One big issue is that the built-in eth0 is not functional.  That is true
> of the ubuntu build as well.  To get around that, I plugged in a USB/ethernet
> adapter (and built the kernel module for it).  That gave me a usable eth1.
>
> This clearly needs a ton of work to be a proper Fedora installation,
> but at least it is a start...
>
>         Steve


Sounds like a good start.

We could probably just use the resize script in our image to expand
partition and resize ext on firstboot?

We might also consider making a wiki page for this device, ensure to
mention this is unsupported.

-Jon