Am Sonntag, 23. Oktober 2011, 13:09:18 schrieb Bernhard Schuster:
2011/10/23 Adrian Schröter
: Am Samstag, 22. Oktober 2011, 18:15:16 schrieb Bernhard Schuster:
Can anybody point me to a (alpha,beta) rootfs, howto create such or what to fix in order to move forward towards it? I already read all openSuSE and ARM related pages but I did not stumble upon anything. I am especially interested in armv7hl for a BB-xM.
The only way you can currently create a rootfs is via unpacking the packages.
The plan is to add kiwi support for ARM, therefore I try to get a building kernel atm.
Apart from that we still have a number of problems atm, esp. some package failures in their test suite should be fixed (eg. gmp) and the gcc is not without flaws atm (ICE).
When you like to help, you could work on kiwi arm support or help fixing packages. (check the failed ones in openSUSE:Factory:ARM project).
I got to read up about the specific issues, some time ago since I did .spec file hacking :>
Please don't get confused that our packages armv7l, they use hardware floating point as all armv7 cpus are providing it.
I don't think this is not a good idea, as proprietary drivers support armv7l but _not_ armv7*h*l, this could potentially confuse beginners.
There is no hardware architecture called armv7hl (at least the linux kernel does not know it). armv7 always supports hfp and our packages are compiled using this ABI.
Regards Bernhard -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de
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