On Nov 17, 2007 12:00 PM, fedora-arm-request@redhat.com wrote:
Message: 4 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:02:08 +0200 From: "Rabeeh Khoury" rabeeh@marvell.com Subject: RE: [fedora-arm] activity To: "Peter Robinson" pbrobinson@gmail.com, "Manas Saksena" msaksena@marvell.com Cc: fedora-arm@redhat.com Message-ID: B9FFC3F97441D04093A504CEA31B7C4101ED320D@msilexch01.marvell.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
This is good news. I was going to ask the same question. There's a lot of SOHO NAS boxes coming out that run on the ARM architecture like the DNS-323 ( http://wiki.dns323.info/ ) that have a reasonable speed processor, some ram/flash etc that would be a good target for a mini fedora distro.
The processor that drives this box is a Marvell SoC 88F5181. There are other NAS boxes that are driven by Marvell SoC 88F5182. Since the Linux kernel is completely GPLed, you can boot to a small firmware like U-Boot and then boot completely off the hard drive. Doing that you can start with small Fedora distro and then 'yum install' other packages.
FWIW I'm trying to finish up an RFS builder which will hopefully simplify the task of creating RFSs & initrds for ARM devices. It is inspired by the livecd work of David Zeuthen and currently uses QEMU to do most of the work. I hope to release it here before the end of the year. As usual the last 10% of the work is taking 90% of the time.... :-)
- tony
Tony Egan wrote:
FWIW I'm trying to finish up an RFS builder which will hopefully simplify the task of creating RFSs & initrds for ARM devices. It is inspired by the livecd work of David Zeuthen and currently uses QEMU to do most of the work. I hope to release it here before the end of the year. As usual the last 10% of the work is taking 90% of the time.... :-)
Neat, please do keep us posted. I'd love to get a Fedora install working on my NSLU2. [1,2] (It's currently running Debian etch.)
Regards, Jon
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 [2] http://www.nslu2-linux.org/