On 11/08/2011 02:31 PM, Peter Czanik wrote:
Hello,
I did not have Internet access for more than a week, and lost a bit track, what is going on with the openSUSE ARM port. What I see is very good news: over 3000 packages build already ( https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3AFactory%3AARM ). As I have an EFIKA MX and helped to get some EFIKAs for developers,
Yes, thanks a lot for that!
my questions relate to it:
- what triplet is used to compile hardfloat binaries? In the archives I found: "Currently we're building with -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfp3-d16 -mthumb." Is it still the case? (I was asked by Debian ARM HF project lead last week...)
Yes, we're using the common ground here. However, our triplet is "gnueabi" instead of "gnueabihf" at the last position because a lot of parts in our toolchain break with gnueabihf and we haven't found a good reason to not use it.
- how are the EFIKAs used?
Currently the two smarttop ones are building the same repo internally using chroot (we can't use chroot in publicly available nodes :( security prevails) to basically give us a good overview on which packages are broken because of qemu and which ones are actual package bugs. As far as the smarbooks go, one of them accompanied me to LinuxCon / ELC in Prague and got demoed to quite a bunch of people showing openSUSE running on ARM :).
- I have openSUSE running in a chroot on my smartbook, thanks to http://michal.hrusecky.net/2011/10/opensuse-arm-chroot-less-then-alpha/ Is there already an image which could be booted directly? Or instructions how to install it natively on the EFIKA?
The last state I knew (just flew back in yesterday - was on the road for the past 3 weeks) was that Adrian was looking at getting kiwi to work with ARM. At that point we could just build images :).
I'll be an FSF Hungary conference this weekend, and would be nice to demo my smartbook with openSUSE running native :)
Just pull the same trick that I did on ELC: Run it in chroot with a separate X session :) (ubuntu) $ X -ac :1 $ for i in /dev /proc /sys /dev/pts; do mount --bind $i /suse/$i; done $ chroot /suse # export DISPLAY=:1 # wmaker tada~. You now have something that feels like a SUSE system despite running on an Ubuntu kernel. It's good enough for demoing right now IMHO :) Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org