Arm-dev July 2014

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Getting started / Build machines
by D.S. Ljungmark 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Hi, I have a bundle of armv7 machines here and quite some interest in running CentOS7 on them at a point not too far into the future. So, given that we have more hardware than sysadmin-time available, but can invest some of our time to this, What can we do to assist / help? Is anyone helped by access to hardware? If so, we can set up the machines to tftp boot and give development access to them over ssh. Are you more helped by setting up automated build systems? If so, how do I get started (Deployment guide, documentation ,what has to be installed and where do I start would be welcome) Are things in the point where it can already run and work? If so, where do I find binaries / images to use and test with? Questions questions, looking forwards to hear from you. //D.S. -- 8362 CB14 98AD 11EF CEB6 FA81 FCC3 7674 449E 3CFC

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Fedora 19 installed and ready to figure out next step
by Robert Moskowitz 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

I have just built a Fedora 19 SD card for my Cubieboard 2 following: http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/cb2/installation/cb2_fedora_19_card_in… The serial console shows: Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) Kernel 3.4.61.sun7i+ on an armv7l (ttyS0) I have read through the various posts from earlier this month. I wish I could figure out how to load them into Thunderbird for working with. But I am basically clueless on the next step. Gordon said: Technically, as Karanbir said, you don't have to run F19 on the build host, just use the F19 respository for mock builds. OTOH, for first pass you may find it a lot faster to install F19 (install _all_ packages), and instead of mock, use just straight rpm to build the first pass. Well I have SOME stuff installed and I really am not getting what next. I will try and read the old posts again, but cookbooks are best with me here. BTW, I WAS working on F21 alpha but found out that SUNXI has not done the video for this yet and it is listed as 'hard to do'. Since video SEEMS to work alright (Lxde desktop) with the F19 remix I am leaving much of F21 alone to work on Centos instead.

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Ready to do test builds on a Cubieboard (Allwinner A20)
by Robert Moskowitz 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

So far I have one Cubieboard 2, and am debating getting another one or a Cubietruck. Same processor but 1Gb ethernet, 802.11, and 2Gb memory. C2 is 100Mb ethernet and 1Gb memory. On my Cubie 2 I have a Fedora 20 install and trying to find out how to get a F 21 setup going. When you do a SD install, you mess up the builtin Android and have to do a SD Android setup, which I have not figured out yet (too many of the instructions are in Chinese). I have LOTS of 8 and 16 GB microSD cards for different build tests. I see Karanbir's post back on July 2: >get a fedora19 armv7 repo up locally, write a mock config to point at >it, and then run that mock builder against the centos7 srpms. So how do I do this, I have very little experience in doing builds and such. I suppose I might be able to help out by putting instructions on Centos docs. Provided I get some instructions :)

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Reasonable help?
by Thomas Bröckers 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Hi, I have one arm machine waiting for a new challenge and some linux and programming skills and was asking myself, if there is anything I could do to support the process of building CentOS for arm? Unfortunately I have no experience in setting up a building environment for linux. So, what do you think? Is there anything I can do to help and if yes, what is the best way to start? Is there a guide I can use to get into it? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction (or telling me to better wait for the finished arm build :-) ), Thomas

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