[fedora-arm] Arndale Octa

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:44:25PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> Does the [ODROID-XU] product work?

Yes and no.

Yes I've got it to work and I'm now using it for some light compiling.

However there are some major shortcomings from my point of view
(as someone looking specifically for a KVM / hardware virt development
platform):

 - No serial, impossible to see any boot messages.

 - Display did not work at all until I spend nearly £200 buying a new
   HDMI monitor and the weird uncommon micro-HDMI cable that the
   ODROID-XU uses.  Now it works after X starts, but not before.
   Still no boot messages.

 - Despite a lot of trying, I could not work out how to recreate the
   boot process from their wiki, so I'm using the ODROID-supplied F19
   disk image.

 - Can only use the Android 3.4 kernel.  Possibly an upstream kernel
   would work, but because I can't see any boot messages, I'm afraid
   to try because it would effectively brick it.

3.4 kernel doesn't support any KVM stuff, so it's useless for the
intended purpose.  We need to be running our own self-compiled
upstream kernels for serious development.

For some background on this, here's what I am looking for:

http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-arm/msg06946.html

Rich.

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