[opensuse-arm] openSUSE 12.2 and Snowball baord
Hi to all Actually, after some test, and some little "hack" the release 12.2 of openSUSE ARM 12.2 is working on my Snowball baord. Actually, even if I'm using the Xfce version of the rootfs, the device boot only and load the console (the kernel is passed via tftp and the filesystem via NFS). From command line works fine, even if I had some problem with "firstboot" due to minicom serial console. I have still some problem with kernel modules (Wifi first of all). Soon I will test the "hdmiservice". I try to build the "riff" utility, but I have to do this manually (I'm unable to build with .spec file. I hope to make a demo valid until January 12. If I can bring the Snowball with openSUSE at the Cerea Fair ( http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cerea_Fair_2013 ). I remember that someone in this list as already started to work with Snowball ( Andrew Wafaa if I remember well) and would like to know his results with Snowball board, and if he can give me some adivce to use at the best that board. Happy new year to all bye Alexjan -- Alexjan Carraturo -- Twitter/Facebook/Identica/flickr: axjslack Personal site: http://axjslack.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Alexjan,
Actually, after some test, and some little "hack" the release 12.2 of openSUSE ARM 12.2 is working on my Snowball baord.
Wow, thats great news. Could you share which "hacks" / modifications you had to do in order to make it work? Which kernel config did you use?
I try to build the "riff" utility, but I have to do this manually (I'm unable to build with .spec file.
What is the riff utility good for? Thanks, Dirk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 01 January 2013 20:00:42 Dirk Mueller wrote:
Hi Alexjan,
Actually, after some test, and some little "hack" the release 12.2 of openSUSE ARM 12.2 is working on my Snowball baord.
Wow, thats great news. Could you share which "hacks" / modifications you had to do in order to make it work? Which kernel config did you use?
I try to build the "riff" utility, but I have to do this manually (I'm unable to build with .spec file.
What is the riff utility good for?
riff is the utility that ST-Ericsson came up with for interfacing with the eMMC on the Snowball board. It enables you to flash/modifyetc the contents of the eMMC. For more info see http://igloocommunity.org/support/Riff Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
On Sunday 30 December 2012 16:50:15 Alexjan Carraturo wrote:
Hi to all
Actually, after some test, and some little "hack" the release 12.2 of openSUSE ARM 12.2 is working on my Snowball baord.
How did you partition the card? The only way I have managed to get my Snowball booting is by using a FAT partition for /boot. Are you using the standard rootfs tarball and then adding your own kernel to the boot partition or using the openSUSE u8500 kernel?
Actually, even if I'm using the Xfce version of the rootfs, the device boot only and load the console (the kernel is passed via tftp and the filesystem via NFS). From command line works fine, even if I had some problem with "firstboot" due to minicom serial console.
This is to be expected as the Snowball has a really bad out of mainline tree for graphical support. They should land the required changes this year (no idea when though). Even if you used the Igloo Community tree you would still need the hdmi-service package otherwise you'll get no HDMI output,
I have still some problem with kernel modules (Wifi first of all). Soon I will test the "hdmiservice".
The modules for WiFi and the other sensors are proprietary. You can obtain them from the Igloo Community site after accepting their EULA. It may be possible for openSUSE to re-distribute them (similar to how we handle Flash and other proprietary apps).
I try to build the "riff" utility, but I have to do this manually (I'm unable to build with .spec file.
I wish you the best of luck with packaging riff and all it's friends. It is horrendously hard coded to do things the Ubuntu way and I filed bugs about it in the past. They are supposedly looking at improving it.
I hope to make a demo valid until January 12. If I can bring the Snowball with openSUSE at the Cerea Fair ( http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cerea_Fair_2013 ).
Even if you can't get X working, you could show off openSUSE as an ARM based server on the Snowball with things like ownCloud etc. All the best with the fair and please let us know how it goes.
I remember that someone in this list as already started to work with Snowball ( Andrew Wafaa if I remember well) and would like to know his results with Snowball board, and if he can give me some adivce to use at the best that board.
Yes indeed, I did start work on getting Snowball support. Unfortunately I became stuck at getting the Snowball u-boot to understand ext partitions for /boot. It only seems to be able to work with FAT for boot. I managed to create an image but have been unable to test it as it wont boot due to u-boot not seeing it properly. I may revisit it again when I have some time, but it wont be till the end of Jan at the earliest. Regards, Andy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
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On Sunday 30 December 2012 16:50:15 Alexjan Carraturo wrote:
Hi to all
Actually, after some test, and some little "hack" the release 12.2 of openSUSE ARM 12.2 is working on my Snowball baord.
How did you partition the card? The only way I have managed to get my Snowball booting is by using a FAT partition for /boot. Are you using the standard rootfs tarball and then adding your own kernel to the boot partition or using the openSUSE u8500 kernel?
I try to use the microSD Card, but I had some problem. For this reason I'm doing my test using kernel loaded via Tftp, and rootfs via NFS. For this reason I have to add the NFS and devfs support to "u8500_defconfig" (version 3.4)
Actually, even if I'm using the Xfce version of the rootfs, the device boot only and load the console (the kernel is passed via tftp and the filesystem via NFS). From command line works fine, even if I had some problem with "firstboot" due to minicom serial console.
This is to be expected as the Snowball has a really bad out of mainline tree for graphical support. They should land the required changes this year (no idea when though). Even if you used the Igloo Community tree you would still need the hdmi-service package otherwise you'll get no HDMI output,
In fact, I'd suspected. I saw a package built on a OBS (the same one where there are other software Snowball). Do you think you could use that? I was also interested in trying the CVBS Output:did you have done some testing with that?
I have still some problem with kernel modules (Wifi first of all). Soon I will test the "hdmiservice".
The modules for WiFi and the other sensors are proprietary. You can obtain them from the Igloo Community site after accepting their EULA. It may be possible for openSUSE to re-distribute them (similar to how we handle Flash and other proprietary apps).
I see that these modules are in the kernel that I'm using (igloo-kernel).... They are compiled well, but when I do modprobe I got some error. I wrote an email on igloo-community mailing list, and I'm following that (may be tha I have to open a bug on their bugzilla).
I try to build the "riff" utility, but I have to do this manually (I'm unable to build with .spec file.
I wish you the best of luck with packaging riff and all it's friends. It is horrendously hard coded to do things the Ubuntu way and I filed bugs about it in the past. They are supposedly looking at improving it.
As I was saying ... I compile riff (version 5), but I doubt that you can make a package .... compilation method is too "dirty" (many things are done by hand, and in ways than optimal).
I hope to make a demo valid until January 12. If I can bring the Snowball with openSUSE at the Cerea Fair ( http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cerea_Fair_2013 ).
Even if you can't get X working, you could show off openSUSE as an ARM based server on the Snowball with things like ownCloud etc. All the best with the fair and please let us know how it goes.
Maybe you're right, although I'd rather show it fully functional (excluding of course the MALI and Decoder)
I remember that someone in this list as already started to work with Snowball ( Andrew Wafaa if I remember well) and would like to know his results with Snowball board, and if he can give me some adivce to use at the best that board.
Yes indeed, I did start work on getting Snowball support. Unfortunately I became stuck at getting the Snowball u-boot to understand ext partitions for /boot. It only seems to be able to work with FAT for boot. I managed to create an image but have been unable to test it as it wont boot due to u-boot not seeing it properly.
I may revisit it again when I have some time, but it wont be till the end of Jan at the earliest.
Regards,
Andy
Thanks for your advice Regards Alexjan.
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