On 14 August 2014 19:55:03 GMT+08:00, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
> I have a headless cubieboard 2 running a 3.4 kernel that came with
the
> board, but a Fedora rootfs already.
>
> It's been pretty workable, but now I need to compile an OOT kernel
module,
> and that's a big mess with the magic 3.4 kernel. The defconfig it was
built
> with has gone 404, although a tarball of the sources (with different
> defconfigs) exists.
>
> So after reading the megathreads here about cubieboard 2 support
working, I
> went to look for a rawhide kernel package and give it a try.
>
> However after looking at Wikis that are out of date compared to the
mailing
> list, and an "Arm Koji" that only has 64-bit arm binaries in the
kernel
> package, I have no idea where to go to get the latest armhf kernel
package,
> U-Boot pieces etc.
ARMv7 was promoted to a primary architecture with Fedora 20 so all
ARMv7 packages are part of mainline Fedora so you get them from the
same place as x86
I see. Thanks to David and Robert as well.
> I think this respin concept is not a good idea, I see rotting
one-off
> "respins" including one from Feb for Cubieboard. But all I want is to
> upgrade the 3.4 kernel to use a Fedora one with latest upstream
pieces. My
> fedora rootfs is already in good shape.
Use F-21 or rawhide images, the process is outlined here [1]
Thanks.
> What steps should someone in this situation take to align
themselves
with
> latest armv7 hf kernel and boot-related pieces that will work on
Cubieboard
> 2?
Kernel is upstream. We don't currently have a uboot that supports the
Cubieboard 2 but that will come as part of the uboot 2014.10-rc2
release that should be in Fedora in 3-4 weeks.
OK thanks.
I should be happy with upstream kernel if it can boot and do network and usb, which it
seems it should.
There's a pile of slightly different "appliances" at the rawhide link from
the wiki page.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=all&view=tree&meth...
I grabbed the image here
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7272277
since it mentioned hardfloat and "Minimal".
I'm extracting it to a spare SD Card and will try to get a boot by hand on a second
cubieboard 2, rather than mess with the rootfs on the main one I'll try to just
transplant the /boot pieces if they work on the test one.
The 3.4 stuff it shipped with doesn't obviously have a separate dtb so it might take
some meddling.
Thanks for putting me in the right direction.
-Andy