[Arm-dev] Work in progress ARM v7 port

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/18/2015 10:41 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 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 );
>
>
Yah, yah.  crawl before walking, and forget about running anytime soon...

Though the 3.18 kernel will match F21 and at least minimal on the Cubies 
(that is no video support, i.e. headless).