[fedora-arm] Getting FC21/arm to boot on beaglebone black/beagle XM/beagleboard/Mele A2000

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 29-01-15 11:34, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> Hi Hans, all
>
> Took a bit of time, but managed to do a test with
> Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-rawhide-20150128-sda.raw.xz
> <https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/6681/8756681/Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-rawhide-20150128-sda.raw.xz>
>
> I also took the u-boot from that one. Md5sum:
> 0829a585ac67b135e2a9f0b1a9279c0d  u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
>
> I did check both VGA and HDMI but got no output on either ports.
>
> I could ssh into the board with some effort:
> The information here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation#FAQ
> is incomplete.
> I also had to disable selinux (the keys I had did not have an selinux
> context)
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/nl-NL/Fedora/11/html/Security-Enhanced_Linux/sect-Security-Enhanced_Linux-Enabling_and_Disabling_SELinux-Disabling_SELinux.html
>
> I also tried startx but it complained that no screens were found.
>
> fpaste of dmesg:
> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/177436/42252728
>
> fpaste of /proc/devices:
> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/177437/27367142
>
> If there is any other info you want me to share or additional tests you
> want me to do, let me know (might take a day or so before I get to it
> though)

To get HDMI out you need to have a hdmi cable plugged in (on both ends)
before booting the device, if no cable is detected u-boot will continue
without initializing hdmi. Note that the current rawhide u-boot only
does 1024x768. Upstream u-boot git master does DDC + EDID and then uses
the monitor / tv's native resolution.

Regards,

Hans