[fedora-arm] Possible File Formats for a Fedora ARM release

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 14:08:17 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> writes:
>
>> Kernels are SoC specific. Not quite as narrowly specialized as device
>> specific, but it's still not going to be a one-size-fits all, at least
>> not any time soon (probably years).
>>
>> For example, if you have a Marvell Kirkwood kernel, you could use that
>> kernel on all supported Marvell Kirkwood devices (SheevaPlug,
>> GuruPlug, DreamPlug, etc.). If you have a Marvell Armada kernel, you
>> could boot that on a D2Plug, CuBox, Compulab SBC-A510, etc. If you
>> have a Tegra2 kernel, you could boot that on Toshiba AC100, TrimSlice,
>> etc.
>
> Just a pipe-dream, but how hard would it be to take these SoC-specific
> requirements and move them into a module that could get put into the
> initramfs?  Is there enough generic across all e.g. Armv5 boards that
> this could happen?

At the moment impossible. Once devicetree gets completed it then
becomes quite probable.

Peter


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