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

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's state is similar to that of mvebu in 3.7 in that it has the core
SoC support and serial console. There's nothing else really.

Peter