Fedora for mipsel and Creator CI20 image

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Michal,

> thanks for your support. Help on the kernel and u-boot side would be
> very appreciated. Reusing the code is the way to go and I believe we can
> use the distro defaults for MIPS with a reasonable effort. So far
> nothing at all has been done on either kernel or u-boot and it is about
> time to start with that.

Happy to help where possible. Upstream first is obviously best for
both kernel and u-boot.

> I was actually planning to catch you at Flock and discuss some more
> details, so if you'll find a minute for me that would be great. This can
> also be a call for others - if you want to discuss MIPS at Flock, I'll
> be there, just let me know.

At flock you can have at least two mins ;-) I think flock would be a
good time, I'm not sure I'll have much time prior to that TBH but I'm
always around on IRC/email so if there's any queries prior to Flock
don't hesitate to ping.

Peter

> On 24.07.2015 o 12:22 Peter Robinson wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> Sorry for the delayed response in posting. To introduce myself I'm the
>> Fedora rel-end secondary arch lead, I've been involved in the ARM*
>> (armv5, armv7 and aarch64) projects as well as ppc64le bringup so I
>> know a little about the process.
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 02:16:18PM +0200, Michal Toman wrote:
>>> I do finally have a working Fedora image for the Creator CI20 [1]. It
>>> boots into headless - you can either use serial console or SSH to
>>> connect - and has a working DNF to install packages. Mock should also be
>>> fully functional.
>>>
>>> I have started stage4 rebuilding a few days ago and will keep the repos
>>> [2] up to date. Issues are listed on the wiki [3], any help on any of
>>> them would be appreciated (top priority now being kernel packaging and
>>> java bootstrap).
>>
>> Let me know if you need help with the kernel side of things. I'm the
>> maintainer for the ARM, and co-maintainer for most of the kernel
>> secondary arches. Also u-boot which I suspect you'll need too for
>> booting.
>>
>> For u-boot bootloader side of things it would be useful to support the
>> distro defaults support as it would allow minimal adjustments for
>> support in grubby/anaconda and friends as it would allow the reuse of
>> the same code as used on ARM making maintenance much easier for all
>> involved.
>>
>> Peter
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