Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-arm (69 mails)

[Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/09/2011 12:26 PM, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2011, 10:10:35 schrieb Joop Boonen:
> > On Tue, November 8, 2011 3:23 pm, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > > 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%3AA
> > > > RM
> > > > ). 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 :).
> > Adrian, what is the status of the kiwi build?
> I had no time for it so far, I need a kernel-default package first. Hopefully
> the current build will succeed.
>
> If someone wants to help, could someone package u-boot (the arm boot loader) ?
> I suppose it will be a pre-requirement for the kiwi support.

We could also build an image that has to be "magically booted by someone 
else". That way we could leave out all the bootloader config and leave 
that up to the system's u-boot to do.

Then it should be fairly simple to create an image using kiwi. Don't 
hold your hopes up to see this working with qemu-linux-user though :).


Alex

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