[fedora-arm] Funding for creation of Fedora 20 Pandaboard spin

[Robert Nelson]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter at peter-b.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 10:30:38 +0000, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> In the case of the Pandaboard ES B3, there is no known kernel able to
>>>> boot the board.
>>>>
>>>> In the case of the A6, the upstream kernel is believed to support the
>>>> board with a very recent version of uboot. However, recently one of our
>>>> contractors (*not* an expert on ARM kernel & boot issues) was unable to
>>>> find any Linux distribution that could boot on it.
>>>
>>> I think we need to make a distinction here between "kernel" and
>>> "distribution". If you can boot a kernel, you can boot any distro's
>>> rootfs
>>> (I'm completely ignoring installers here).
>>
>> That's not entirely true, Fedora for example has a hard requirement on
>> a number of kernel features that will cause major issues if they're
>> not present.
>>
>> That said I honestly don't believe it should be too hard for someone
>> with a hard debugger and a bit of know how to work out what is wrong
>> with the Fedora kernel on the PandaBoard devices to allow them to be
>> supported again in the main distribution kernel. The main problem
>> we've got is people with the know how don't have the interest and visa
>> versa. I personally just don't have the time and gave my HW debugger
>> away as a result.
>>
>
> The reason that we were considering providing some funding was in hope of
> overcoming the lack-of-interest barrier.
>


Last I looked at it for the newer ES boards memory.

Just need to create a new dts file, limiting the emifX node to only
one cs instead of the two currently used by panda common.  The memory
timing will have to also be copied from u-boot, and the emif driver
may need to be verified to only recognize one cs line.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
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