Am 18.09.2014 um 09:23 schrieb Ivan Skytte Jørgensen <isj-opensusearm@i1.dk>:
I recently bought a Compulab Utilite Pro. It came with Ubuntu installed. I would like to get something else installed on it, preferably OpenSuSE.
Since it already boots into Linux I'm wondering if I have really have to go the virtualbox+crosscompiliation route.
I have an NFS server already so I could use nfsroot in U-Boot. As an intermediate step I could also set up Opensuse in an LXC container to verify that userland works.
I'm not sure what the easiest approach would be. My goal is to use it as a headless searver running named/postfix/ssh/...
Any advice is appreciated.
So the easiest path to something that feels like native openSUSE is to reuse the existing uboot and kernel. There you can just download our JeOS rootfs, put it on some storage that you can reach from the existing kernel and change your root= parameter in the kernel cmdline to boot into it. With a bit of luck, that may "just work". Next step would be to use an upstream kernel. Your board has upstream support since 3.14, so everything should already be around in our current Factory kernel. Just pass in the correct device tree and see whether it works ;). If that does work out, try to put all of that tediously gathered knowledge in a branch of the JeOS package for your board. Then we can add support to the imx6 contrib repo - and maybe even make that system an officially supported target :). Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org