[Arm-dev] Work in progress ARM v7 port

[Karanbir Singh]

On 02/18/2015 03:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> On 02/18/2015 09:58 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 17/02/15 19:17, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> Great to see this.
>>>
>>> You could be using the Fedora 21 arm builds and source for your starting
>>> point.  It has direct installation on a number of cards. You have to dig
>>> a bit on the Fedora download site to find them, but they are there.
>> the dep tree's on f21 make it harder to map the el7 codebase, we can
>> certainly learn and lean on the work done in the fedora ecosystem around
>> the board support though - and I know lots of folks in that area are
>> keen to help make the CentOS ARM story complete as possible.
> 
> And it will be harder to support many boards with earlier code bases. 
> It is the uboot and kernel (3.19) that you want, as you know.  Until
> then, you will be doing remixes for each board which will be harder in
> its own way.
> 
> Having some problems with the USB and Cubieboard with the latest
> Rawhide.  Was told it is on the list of many things to figure out and
> fix.  It is that sort of thing that we will need in the end to have
> broad board support.

step1, get something working

step2, make it work on more than 1 board :)

At the moment, Howard is targetting a 3.18 kernel, I suspect that will
change to 3.19 at some point ( or maybe even beyond );


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