[fedora-arm] Yum offers kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.rpm for armv5tel F17 install, does not boot on qemu vexpress-a9

[Brendan Conoboy]

On 02/08/2013 10:19 AM, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote:
> A few days ago, I updated my qemu virtual machine, which runs F17 with
> -M vexpress-a9. The yum update installed
> kernel-3.7.3-101.fc17.armv7l.rpm . Today I got around to rebooting the
> machine with the provided vmlinuz and initramfs. However, the boot
> process stalls with no messages. Not even "Uncompressing Linux...". I
> reverted to the previous kernel, kernel-3.5.6-1.fc17.armv5tel . What am
> I doing wrong? Should I use a different qemu emulation? The strange
> thing is that the vexpress-a9 emulation reports armv7l, so the
> instruction set is supposed to be OK.

You need to use a device tree blob with the 3.7 kernels on versatile 
express.  The latest f18 3.7 kernel includes the device tree you need 
under /boot.  Not sure about f17.  Don't worry about the armv7l bit, 
that's the right arch for armv5tel on versatile express.

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com