On 10/18/2012 01:18 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
>
> On 18 Oct 2012 20:29, "Jurgen Kramer" <gtmkramer(a)xs4all.nl
> <mailto:gtmkramer@xs4all.nl>> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 10:21 -0600, Al Stone wrote:
> > > On 10/18/2012 09:44 AM, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 16:34 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > >> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jurgen Kramer
> <gtmkramer(a)xs4all.nl <mailto:gtmkramer@xs4all.nl>> wrote:
> > > >>> I am trying to get Fedora running on the cubox. I am getting
> close but
> > > >>> no cigar yet.
> > >
> > > I haven't had much luck yet, either, but I also haven't been able
to
> > > spend a great deal of time with my CuBox (maybe all of an hour so
> > > far). I've been attempting an f17 rootfs, though.
> > >
> > > Is there some place I can go to and pick up the kernel/initrd you've
> > > got and try it so that I can replicate what you're seeing? Or, are
> you
> > > just using the kernel source from SolidRun?
> > >
> > I got a bit further by using different memory addresses for the kernel
> > and initrd. Systemd now starts but complains about missing autofs4 and
> > cgroups.
> > As kernel source and config I am using the SolidRun kernel sources
> > enhanced with several patches (
https://github.com/vDorst/linux) .
> >
> > I'll put up the kernel/initrd once it's done compiling with cgroups
and
> > autofs4 enabled.
> >
> > What would be needed for Fedora to support the CuBox? CuBox support is
> > not upstream (yet).
>
> Upstream support in a unified kernel. From the little I've read Marvell
> plans on supporting this as part of the mvebu support as they mention
> supporting dove as part of it which is what I think the cubox is based on.
I don't know about the unified part, but I'll look into that.
I'm pretty sure the CuBox is a Marvell Armada 510 SoC (single CPU
version of the Armada XP 4-CPU chip). In theory, it should even be
able to use the Armada XP kernel -- or so I've been told :).
It is an Armada 510 which is very similar to the Armada 610 in the
OLPC XO 1.75 and I believe this generation / series of chips is known
as Dove and it's code name is MMP2 (side note the XO-4 is MMP3). In
theory they will be able to use the XP kernel but I don't believe that
is the case at the moment at least from an upstream perspective. There
was a post as part of the XP upstreaming that mentioned they were
going to merge Kirkwood, Dove, XP etc into a single supported mvebu
(marvell embedded business unit) set of devices.
Peter