[fedora-arm] Announcing Fedora 18 Beta for Allwinner A10 based devices

[Jon Masters]

On 01/15/2013 11:43 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:50 AM, David Marlin <dmarlin at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm very happy to announce the availability of Fedora 18 Beta for
>>> Allwinner A10 based devices. This release is based on the official
>>> Fedora 18 beta for ARM images.
>>
>>
>> Do you have a kernel RPM for the A10 yet?  I know Fu Wei was working on
>> packaging the 3.4 A10 kernel, but I'm not sure if you have discussed this
>> with him.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> You can download it here:
>>> http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/contrib-images/hansg
>>
>>
>> will do.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> It is important to read the README, the image standard comes without
>>> u-boot pre-loaded since u-boot is board specific. The image includes
>>> a user-friendly simple script to install the right u-boot for
>>> your board, but if you simply xzcat the image to an sdcard, and then
>>> boot your device with the sdcard, things will *not* work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have you considered adding support for the A10 boards (Gooseberry,
>> Cubieboard, etc.) to the uboot-tools package:
>>
>>   http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=98609
>>
>> There is already support for several ARM boards (beagle, origen, panda,
>> etc.), so there are examples of how to add a new board.  Then we can simply
>> install the right U-Boot when the image is created.
> 
> Not possible as the support for the A10 isn't upstream in uboot as yet
> and it's still currently a fork. Like the kernel there are plans to do
> it but it's not been done as yet.

Initial A1X is in 3.8. So we'll get to have some fun.

Jon.