Fedora 15 ARM hardfp Virtual FAD (Fedora Activity Day) - TODAY

[Niels de Vos]

On 26 Aug 2011 10:51, "Jon Masters" <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> We are hosting another one of our regular Fedora 15 hardfp Virtual
> Fedora Activity Day today Friday August 26th 2011, at 14:00UTC (10:00
> Eastern Daylight Time). The purpose of this session is to co-ordinate
> the continued bootstrap of F15 hardfp (hardware floating point).
>
> Previously, we performed initial bootstrap (stage1), then proceeded to
> get RPM working natively within an ARMv7 hardfp environment (stage2),
> then got yum and mock working (stage3). We are now in what we are
> calling "stage4" in which we are rebuilding the world of packages using
> mock, but are not yet using Koji to do so - that will be stage5, the
> final stage before we are able to say that we have completed bringup.
>
> We need helping building packages within a mock environment for F15. To
> do this, we have made your life as a (potential) volunteer somewhat more
> straightforward through the creation of a standard image that you can
> install onto an ARMv7 compatible board (tested on Panda, we believe this
> should also work on Beagle, and can be made to run on Tegra-2 boards

The builder I've enabled runs on the new OLPC within a chroot and that seems
to work very well. I'm not sure if the kernel is a hfp one, but I don't
think that was a requirement.

> like Trimslice with a replacement kernel - ask us for assistance). Once
> you have done this, the resulting system will contain a simple script
> that you can use to randomly retrieve a package that needs building and
> have it build without you having to even issue a single mock command :)
>
> To participate, visit the following link:
>
>
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/f15hardfp/bootstrap/rootfs_stage4_20110825/
>
> Follow the instructions contained within the readme file to extract the
> "uboot", "boot", and "root" archives onto an SD Card for your device.
> These instructions will destroy whatever is already installed. If you
> are familiar with using chroots, you can also retrieve the "root" image
> and chroot into it if you would prefer (after bind mounting /proc, /dev,
> etc.). We generally prefer not using chroots at this stage however.
>
> Once you have followed the setup instructions:
>
> 0). Configure /etc/sysconfig/network
> and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* according to your setup.
> The ones in that image statically assign "tenaya.bos.jonmasters.org".
>
> 1). Login to your board as root (password is "fedora"). Change the
> password if you would like to do so.
>
> 2). Become the "builder" user. You can either "su - builder" or you can
> "passwd builder", and then login remotely/on the console.
>
> 3). Optional, but recommended, use "screen -S builder" or similar to
> start a screen session that you can leave running.
>
> 4). Run the simple building script: ./arm-rebuild.sh
>
> 5). Monitor the arm mailing list. It is likely that a newer version of
> the builder script will be posted later today or before Monday. When
> that happens, we may change the SSH keys used in the build image, which
> would have the effect of forcing everyone to update. The purpose of that
> being to prevent any existing builders running the older script version.
> Instructions will be posted for updating a couple files will be posted.
>
> Please join us on IRC: #fedora-arm on irc.freenode.org.
>
> Further documentation will be provided on the Fedora ARM wiki today,
> however this email should provide sufficient setup information now.
>
> Jon.
>
>
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