[fedora-arm] 3.8.x. kernel for F-18/17

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> We're getting close to pushing a proper updates build for the F-18/17
> releases to rebase them to kernel 3.8.x.
> 
> I have done a scratch build of 3.8.2-202 [1] and I would like some
> wider testing especially on armv5tel devices.
> 

I ran a test on my OpenRD Client. The system has 512 MB of RAM. A kirkwood SOC and a xgi z11 video chip.  I have uboot in the OpenRd client set to boot the kernel from a boot partition on a sata drive and have the rootfs in another partition on the sata drive. I use a file for swap.  The roofs is Fedora 17.

I downloaded kernel-kirkwood-3.8.2-202.fc18.armv5tel.rpm from your scratch build
to the sata disk in the OpenRD Client and then ran
su -c 'yum -v localinstall kernel-kirkwood-3.8.2-202.fc18.armv5tel.rpm'
The installation went well. It did take a bit of time during the cleanup phase and 
I assume that is due to dracut running.

I then rebooted the OpenRD Client and it booted cleanly with the new kernel.

[root at OpenRD ~]# uname -a
Linux OpenRD 3.8.2-202.fc18.armv5tel.kirkwood #1 Mon Mar 4 20:24:06 UTC 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux

lsmod shows the xgifb loaded for the OpenRD Clients xgi z11 video chip

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
model name      : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS        : 1196.85
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp 
CPU implementer : 0x56
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant     : 0x2
CPU part        : 0x131
CPU revision    : 1

Hardware        : Marvell OpenRD Client Board
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000

If you need any more info let me know.
Oh and thank you for all the hard work.

Robert H.

> A quick overview of the status of this kernel on the various devices we support:
> * Beagle XM - I have it working on my XM! WOO! I plan on generating a
> test image to allow wider testing of this because I know there's
> interesting. You need DeviceTree to get it to work.
> * Panda - Tested on the original Panda, ES testing still outstanding
> * Trimslice - DTS tested working with uboot v2012.04-1.01 [3] (the one
> with half the RAM)
> * Highbank - tested and working
> 
> As we do further testing the wiki [2] will be updated.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned the remaining outstanding bugs are as follows:
> * vexpress on qemu crashes on boot due to divide by zero bug.
> * upgrade from kernel-highbank -> kernel
> 
> Peter
> 
> [1] http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1530549
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Quality_Assurance/Kernel_Testing#kernel-3.8.2-202.fc18
> [3] http://www.trimslice.com/wiki/index.php/Trim-Slice_Firmware_Updater
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