[fedora-arm] testing Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-rawhide-20150110-sda.raw.xz

[Peter Robinson]

>> I have finally squeezed some time in to run a test on a Cubieboard2.  I
>> will be doing more testing over the next couple weeks.  I hope.
>>
>> This rawhide minimal is not prompting me during first boot for root
>> passward, timezone, adduser.  Not added yet?
>>
>> No longer have to modify boot for the 'console' option.  That is working
>> nicely.
>>
>> I plugged in the ethernet cable a while after logging in and it took some
>> time to gain IP addressing.  I am use to ifdown eth0;ifup eth0.  Of course
>> with no config file, these do not work.  What do I use instead to give in
>> this case dhcp a kick to get IP addresses?
>>
>> I see it comes with the 3.19 kernel.  What uboot, per Hans' lastest email?
>> Obviously I would like to test out video support.  I will be able to do some
>> of the 3.19 kernel testing once I get a few things up and working.
>>
>> As I am away until friday, and did not bring an HDMI cable with me to
>> connect to the room TV, I will probably not be doing much else testing until
>> friday.
>
>
> For the sunxi video output support to work we need to enable simplefb,
> are we currently enabling any fbdev (so non kms) drivers on arm?

Yes:
$ grep SIMPLE co*
config-arm-generic:CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE=y
config-armv7-generic:CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SIMPLE=m
config-armv7-generic:CONFIG_SND_SIMPLE_CARD=m

> If so I think we should add simplefb, if not I guess we may want to wait
> for simpledrm which is a kms driver using the same firmware interface
> to get the framebuffer from u-boot.

I'd prefer the KMS simpledrm actually as I think it's a better way
forward, any idea when that should land?

Peter