Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-arm (69 mails)

["Joop Boonen" <joop.boonen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, November 9, 2011 2:21 pm, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2011, 14:01:30 schrieb Joop Boonen:
> > On Wed, November 9, 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%3AFacto
> > > > > > ry%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.
> >
> > Ok, then I'll start working on kiwi, this coming weekend. If I get
> > something working how can I submit the diffs, to be reviewed?
>
> best is to the kiwi developer mailing list.
> Or make a git pull request on github.com

I didn't get to this was working on the kernel. Hopefully I can fix this
issues with this one soon. I have an usb issue, that I need to fix. (
home:worldcitizen:armv7l kernel-omap4panda )

After that I'll start working on kiwi.

> > > 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.
> >
> > U-boot has been build for the pandaboard. I used the meego version as a
> > base. It still needs a bit of tuning.
> > The package can be found here: home:worldcitizen:armv7l
> > u-boot-omap4panda
>
> please look for a devel project and submit to factory.
I've submitted both x-loader-omap4panda and u-boot-omap4panda to
Base:System . (request id 91227 and request id 91228)
I've tested both of them on my PandaBoard.

> --
> Adrian Schroeter
> SUSE Linux Products GmbH
> email: adrian@xxxxxxx


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