Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)

2013-07-26 Thread Davide
I got round to syncing my new image builder:

http://ftp.slackware.org.uk/slackwarearm/people/louigi600/


Touchscreen is still not working on my device ... but if your touchscreen is on 
the usb bus chances are that it will work.

Have fun
David




 Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it
A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org 
Inviato: Sabato 20 Luglio 2013 7:50
Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix 
for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)
 


My new image builder for the xzpad700 (as soon as I've time to sync it) will 
prepare images for all the hardware that the fedora currently supports 
(including the new A20 socs). as a matter of fact I\m using their bootloader 
and their kernels until I get round to building my own kernel. 

Incidently my image builder will let you deploy any distro root filesystem 
tarball ... but you might need a bit of manual for non slackware root tarballs.

Regards
David




 Da: Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com
A: ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org 
Inviato: Venerdì 19 Luglio 2013 21:15
Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for 
Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)
 


For whoever is interested. Maybe it's possible to port Slackware to the A20. 
Luke Leighton is already producing some prototypes. I've asked on the 
arm-netbook list if anybody is interested in seeing Slackware running on it.
If that rings any bells, please give a shout.
I might buy one myself if/when the device is usable. My budget is limited as 
I'm out ot work.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Antony Antony ant...@phenome.org
Date: Jul 19, 2013 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs 
release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)
To:  arm-netb...@lists.phcomp.co.uk

this is an interesting news item, though my prefeence is a debian.
-antony

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:12:35
From: Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com
To: linux-su...@googlegroups.com, Fedora ARM a...@lists.fedoraproject.org,
    Development discussions related to Fedora de...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1,
    now with A20 support

Hi All,

I'm very happy to announce the first release (r1) of my Fedora 19 ARM
remix images for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 based devices. This
release is based on the official Fedora 19 Final for ARM images,
with u-boot and kernel(s) from the linux-sunxi project:
http://linux-sunxi.org/

Besides all the goodies from Fedora-19, this release also contains
the following new items on the Allwinner / sunxi front:

-Support for the new dual core A20 soc (tested with cubieboard2),
 this is based on forward porting the core machine code + various
 drivers from allwinners 3.3 kernel source dump to the sunxi-3.4
 sources. The following has been ported / is supported:
 -uarts
 -mmc controllers
 -ehci and ohci usb controllers (usb controllers 1 and 2, controller
  0 is an otg controller and is not supported yet.
 -video output block (hdmi, vga, lcd, composite out)
 -i2c controllers
 -axp pmic including cpu voltage scaling
 -rtc
 -sound: analog in/out, hdmi audio, spdif out (spdif untested)
 -ethernet controller (emac)
 -sata controller
 Note any functional blocks in the SOC which are not explictly
 listed as supported above are not supported atm
-Support for a couple of new boards (38 boards in total now)

You can download it here:
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/contrib-images/hansg/Fedora-19-a10-armhfp-r1.img.xz

sha1sum: a179afafd77c26c7022392d2fa72e3fd221dd33a

It is important to read the README, the image standard comes without
u-boot pre-loaded since u-boot is board specific. The image includes
a user-friendly simple script to install the right u-boot for
your board, but if you simply xzcat the image to an sdcard, and then
boot your device with the sdcard, things will *not* work.

See the README for a list of currently supported boards.

Known Issues:
-Many boards don't have an rtc (A10 and A20 have a builtin one),
 or at least no battery backup for it, resulting in the date
 + time being wrong.
-If the date is of by more then a couple of months, yum update
 won't work because certificate validation fails for the https
 connection yum tries to make. So if yum fails to get its repodata
 first check (and fix) your date
-The regular (host not otg) usb-port on A10s based boards can be a
 bit quirky. It is best to plug in a hub even when using only one
 device, otherwise the device may not be recognized. If this happens,
 after adding a hub, often a power-cycle is needed too.
-The wifi chip on the Auxtek-T004 hdmi-stick is unsupported atm

Enjoy,

Hans


And to make sure everyone reads the README, let me print it here
in full:

Fedora 19 ARM for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20

Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)

2013-07-20 Thread Davide
My new image builder for the xzpad700 (as soon as I've time to sync it) will 
prepare images for all the hardware that the fedora currently supports 
(including the new A20 socs). as a matter of fact I\m using their bootloader 
and their kernels until I get round to building my own kernel. 

Incidently my image builder will let you deploy any distro root filesystem 
tarball ... but you might need a bit of manual for non slackware root tarballs.

Regards
David




 Da: Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com
A: ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org 
Inviato: Venerdì 19 Luglio 2013 21:15
Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for 
Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)
 


For whoever is interested. Maybe it's possible to port Slackware to the A20. 
Luke Leighton is already producing some prototypes. I've asked on the 
arm-netbook list if anybody is interested in seeing Slackware running on it.
If that rings any bells, please give a shout.
I might buy one myself if/when the device is usable. My budget is limited as 
I'm out ot work.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Antony Antony ant...@phenome.org
Date: Jul 19, 2013 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs 
release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)
To:  arm-netb...@lists.phcomp.co.uk

this is an interesting news item, though my prefeence is a debian.
-antony

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:12:35
From: Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com
To: linux-su...@googlegroups.com, Fedora ARM a...@lists.fedoraproject.org,
    Development discussions related to Fedora de...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1,
    now with A20 support

Hi All,

I'm very happy to announce the first release (r1) of my Fedora 19 ARM
remix images for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 based devices. This
release is based on the official Fedora 19 Final for ARM images,
with u-boot and kernel(s) from the linux-sunxi project:
http://linux-sunxi.org/

Besides all the goodies from Fedora-19, this release also contains
the following new items on the Allwinner / sunxi front:

-Support for the new dual core A20 soc (tested with cubieboard2),
 this is based on forward porting the core machine code + various
 drivers from allwinners 3.3 kernel source dump to the sunxi-3.4
 sources. The following has been ported / is supported:
 -uarts
 -mmc controllers
 -ehci and ohci usb controllers (usb controllers 1 and 2, controller
  0 is an otg controller and is not supported yet.
 -video output block (hdmi, vga, lcd, composite out)
 -i2c controllers
 -axp pmic including cpu voltage scaling
 -rtc
 -sound: analog in/out, hdmi audio, spdif out (spdif untested)
 -ethernet controller (emac)
 -sata controller
 Note any functional blocks in the SOC which are not explictly
 listed as supported above are not supported atm
-Support for a couple of new boards (38 boards in total now)

You can download it here:
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/contrib-images/hansg/Fedora-19-a10-armhfp-r1.img.xz

sha1sum: a179afafd77c26c7022392d2fa72e3fd221dd33a

It is important to read the README, the image standard comes without
u-boot pre-loaded since u-boot is board specific. The image includes
a user-friendly simple script to install the right u-boot for
your board, but if you simply xzcat the image to an sdcard, and then
boot your device with the sdcard, things will *not* work.

See the README for a list of currently supported boards.

Known Issues:
-Many boards don't have an rtc (A10 and A20 have a builtin one),
 or at least no battery backup for it, resulting in the date
 + time being wrong.
-If the date is of by more then a couple of months, yum update
 won't work because certificate validation fails for the https
 connection yum tries to make. So if yum fails to get its repodata
 first check (and fix) your date
-The regular (host not otg) usb-port on A10s based boards can be a
 bit quirky. It is best to plug in a hub even when using only one
 device, otherwise the device may not be recognized. If this happens,
 after adding a hub, often a power-cycle is needed too.
-The wifi chip on the Auxtek-T004 hdmi-stick is unsupported atm

Enjoy,

Hans


And to make sure everyone reads the README, let me print it here
in full:

Fedora 19 ARM for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 devices README
-

Quickstart guide


1) Insert an sdcard, note any data on the card will be destroyed!
2) Make sure the card is not mounted, run mount and if the card shows
   up in the output umount its partitions
3) Write the img file to the card, ie as root do:
   xzcat Fedora-19-a10-armhfp-r1.img.xz  /dev/mmcblk0
   sync
4) The card is not yet ready for use! Since the A10 u-boot is board
   specific, the image comes without any uboot install, follow the next