Re: [fedora-arm] What ARM hardware for KVM?

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 17:43 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 08/21/2013 12:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Sorry to hijack this thread a second time, but what ARM hardware is currently recommended where KVM works in a reasonably out of the box way? KVM requires hardware virtualization

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM related talks at FLOCK!

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Tyler
How to bring up a new ARM board with Fedora - Peter Robinson Plus... Sunday Hyperscale Cloud Management with Open Stack - Chris Tyler 10:00 am -- Chris ___ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [fedora-arm] Arm Board Reccomends

2013-01-30 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 10:43 +, Frank Murphy wrote: What would you recommend as a small-cheap board, that would be supported into the future with Fedora. (Couple of years at least) Rasperry-PI seems to be out due to sfp. It depends on your criteria for small and cheap. There will be a Pi

Re: [fedora-arm] F18 ARM Final plan from this morning's hackfest discussion

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 22:00 -0800, Sean Omalley wrote: Why not just add the device tree to uboot? Then when the system gets to uboot, it already has a device tree, and you just have to map it to the os? Then you don't have to ship 1000 dtb files and probe the 32 different revs of the same

[fedora-arm] rootfs-resize v2

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Tyler
I've rewritten the rootfs-resize service and adjusted the package to make it more robust and address these issues/RFEs: * BZ 870501 - rootfs-resize causes loss of root filesystem * RFE: Support GPT disklabels (untested, but should be handled by libparted) * BZ 870501 - update package to use new

Re: [fedora-arm] Working on Fedora-arm port for Allwinner A10 based devices

2012-12-20 Thread Chris Tyler
Hi Hans, This sounds really cool. We just received two cubieboards yesterday, and got a Gooseberry from Spot a few weeks back, but we have no experienced with the A10 SoC yet. So summarizing I'm looking for suggestions for: 1) Where to host Fedora-18 images for A10 based devices If you don't

[fedora-arm] Fedora-ARM Team Shirts

2012-12-20 Thread Chris Tyler
We talked about this a long time back, but since a number of us will be together in one spot at FUDCon, maybe we should revive the idea of a Fedora ARM team shirt. - Anyone interested? - What should we put on it? We can probably get clearance for the 'Fedora' logo but not likely for the 'ARM'

Re: [fedora-arm] Soft-float chroot on hard-float distro and vice versa

2012-12-15 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 10:10 +, Gordan Bobic wrote: Hi, I've been trying to google this and I haven't been able to find a definitive answer on the subject. I seem to recall a discussion on this list a while back, with the general conclusion being that this is problematic, but my

Re: [fedora-arm] round in circles

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 11:46 +, David Rusling wrote: * call me naive but I would thought that installing a desktop such as fxce would have dragged in X? Seems surprising at first glance, but of course (a) the X server doesn't have to be local and (b) there are multiple local X servers that

Re: [fedora-arm] Regarding Seneca Issues

2012-11-28 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 23:17 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: Thing is, and not speaking for Brendan, but I'm sure he agrees. None of this is personal or meant to detract from the great work being done at Seneca. You guys have been great, and I know that sometimes we all get a bit frustrated, and even

Re: [fedora-arm] Arm-Koji buildsystem will be down for maintenance

2012-11-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 13:41 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: So, can you perhaps provide a bit more detail? We know you've been looking at options around the tables, but...more info? Long story short: db dump reload for storage packing, with an LVM snapshot as a safety net; should be done in about 20

[fedora-arm] Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix - Test 4

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Tyler
For those interested, a new test release of the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is available from http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/raspberrypi/test-releases/rpfr17/ Changes in this release: - Image resize/swap space creation is now more reliable (note, however, that it will take several minutes after

Re: [fedora-arm] about latest raspberry pi version

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 17:43 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote: Hi all, I've downloaded the latest version for raspberry pi from http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/raspberrypi/test-releases/raspberrypi-fedora-remix-17/latest/rpfr-727.img. When it come to the first boot screen, I found if I did any

Re: [fedora-arm] about latest raspberry pi version

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 21:16 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote: And where can I update the newest raspberrypi-config-0.6? I check its version with yum info which results the version 0.1 that is available. Here is the yum repo list: [root@raspi yum.repos.d]# yum repolist enabled Loaded plugins:

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 17 ARM GA Release

2012-07-10 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 23:51 +0530, Rahul Bhalerao wrote: Is there a build compatible with WM8650 ARM 926 EJ-S or Cortex Nuvoton M0? Regards, Rahul. (Trimming To/Cc line to drop announce and devel) Probably, but getting it installed will depend on the board specifics. What devices are you

Re: [fedora-arm] e2fsprogs alignment

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 16:23 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: This issue also affects SPARC and Itanium, IIRC, likely a lot of others, too. It's only x86 and ARMv7+ that have transparent automatic alignment fixup in hardware. On ARM v7, there are software fixups via trap, which is basically the

Re: [fedora-arm] e2fsprogs alignment

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 19:03 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 07/09/2012 05:25 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: And it's a lot more expensive. I prefect expense over corrupted filesystems or other equally not nice situations. I prefer a well written program that doesn't require expensive

[fedora-arm] Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix 17 update

2012-07-06 Thread Chris Tyler
A long-overdue update on the Raspi remix... - There are some remaining compose issues, work is proceeding. - Firstboot has been extended with modules for timezone (bugfix for existing module), root password, rootfs resize enable/disable + swap size select, hostname + systemd target (text or

Re: [fedora-arm] Downtime - ARM Buildsystem /mnt/koji disk upgrades

2012-05-09 Thread Chris Tyler
As agreed in the meeting today, we're going to reschedule for next Wednesday (May 16), same time. -Chris On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:33 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: The ARM buildsystem will be down briefly for disk upgrades for repo storage (/mnt/koji on chile). This is tentatively scheduled

[fedora-arm] Draft of Release Criteria

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Tyler
Paul Whalen and I have marked up a copy of the PA release criteria to create a first-cut draft of ARM release criteria. We propose discussing this on the call this afternoon. Here's the current draft in an Etherpad document - changes highlighted (bold), additions underlined, deletions struck out:

Re: [fedora-arm] ARMv5 and atomic operations

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 10:40 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: On 04/23/2012 10:36 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: Andrew Haley wrote: On 04/23/2012 02:16 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: As we get closer to having 100% package coverage in F17-ARM we're running into harder build failures due to the

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone Out There Willing To Test A GUI Version Of Anaconda For Me?

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 23:47 +, Jon Chiappetta wrote: Can someone with a spare F17 (ARMv5 or ARMv7) machine, a network connection, and some sort of GUI capability try installing this package of Anaconda? I can't promise any of this will work or even run but I'd be interested in hearing any

Re: [fedora-arm] F17 snapshot images

2012-03-31 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 09:52 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:20:17 -0700 Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/30/2012 05:35 PM, Andy Green (林安廸) wrote: It's great that you're doing this, but I don't think dding

Re: [fedora-arm] F17 Build Times For All Pkgs Built By Trimslices (x86 vs x64 vs sfp vs hfp)

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 14:45 -0400, Jonathan Chiappetta wrote: So here are the build times for various pkgs from our cdot-trimslices: Here is Jon's data with a bit of spreadsheet analysis: http://england.proximity.on.ca/arm/pa-sa-build-speed/ Looks like, for this package sample, building on a

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 12:28 +, Gordan Bobic wrote: Chris Tyler wrote: We do, after a fashion (and then wrap it in some extra layers): it's called a Live Disc :-) Indeed, but that's not an installation. Install to Disk on a live disc dd's the premade ext3/4 filesystem image to the hard

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Koji Downtime - Proposed: 2012-03-21 1300-2100 UTC

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 21:15 +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: We need to do some testing on the buildsystem to iron out a few NFS issues and do some physical work. I propose taking the farm offline on Wednesday from 1300-2100

[fedora-arm] ARM Koji Downtime - Proposed: 2012-03-21 1300-2100 UTC

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Tyler
We need to do some testing on the buildsystem to iron out a few NFS issues and do some physical work. I propose taking the farm offline on Wednesday from 1300-2100 UTC (0800-1700 EDT), any objections? -Chris ___ arm mailing list

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Tyler
First stab at a few answers-- On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 16:46 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: How are ARM-specific issues such as legacy alignment problems to be addressed? ARM v7 systems have hardware fixup for alignment issues, just as x86 does. ARM v5 systems can do fixup in software with a CPU

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 21:38 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: 1. Packages that are truly x86 specific do not need to be made to work on ARM. And the packages that depend upon them hopefully don't either, but there's going to be some issues there. Note that this goes both ways - there are a

Re: [fedora-arm] Primary Architecture - VFAD proposal for tomorrow (Wed Mar 14th 2012 afternoon EST)

2012-03-14 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 14:44 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/13/2012 12:02 PM, Jon Masters wrote: Hi Folks, I would like to propose that we have a VFAD tomorrow to get the Primary Architecture stuff moving forward, prior to our status phone call, and rolling on into it. What say you?

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM and shipping of various binary firmware / boot bits

2012-03-08 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 11:22 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote: I don't think we want to be packaging up system BIOSes (or their equivalent). Our firmware exception is intended _only_ to enable FOSS code that wouldn't work without it. I realize that it would be easier to have these files packaged so

Re: [fedora-arm] Possible File Formats for a Fedora ARM release

2012-02-06 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:25 -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: The support grid is really just 2x2: You're either armv5tel or armv7hl. You either need a separate partition for bootloader bits (omap, etc scenario) or you don't (tegra scenario). Putting together tarball that has everything a

Re: [fedora-arm] supported hardware

2012-01-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 08:19 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: i think we need to come up with a list of supported hardware. something like https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards and http://www.linaro.org/low-cost-development-boards/ i think we should support the linaro boards if the make sense. in

Re: [fedora-arm] Weekly Call - WhenIsGood

2012-01-18 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 13:37 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 23:43 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: Here is a WhenIsGood page to help set the day of the week and time for our weekly call: http://whenisgood.net/hgiytmb Results will be visible here: http

Re: [fedora-arm] Weekly Call - WhenIsGood

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Tyler
A gentle reminder... On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 23:43 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: Here is a WhenIsGood page to help set the day of the week and time for our weekly call: http://whenisgood.net/hgiytmb Results will be visible here: http://whenisgood.net/hgiytmb/results/b8se59 Please post

[fedora-arm] FUDcon Sunday

2012-01-14 Thread Chris Tyler
For the Fedora-ARM folks at FUDcon Blacksburg: let's try to meet up at 10 am tomorrow at McBryde for about 2 hours of discussion to wrap things up. I'd particularly like to spend some time on communication and coordination. For those not at FUDcon ... it's been a good couple of days of

[fedora-arm] Weekly Call - WhenIsGood

2012-01-14 Thread Chris Tyler
Here is a WhenIsGood page to help set the day of the week and time for our weekly call: http://whenisgood.net/hgiytmb Results will be visible here: http://whenisgood.net/hgiytmb/results/b8se59 Please post your preferred times by the end of the day on Monday. Thanks! -Chris

[fedora-arm] ARM Koji Build System - Power Outage, 2011-12-30

2011-12-29 Thread Chris Tyler
The municipal power feed to the building containing the ARM koji buildsystem will be shut down for four hours starting around 1300 UTC (0800 EST) on 2011-12-30. Since this exceeds the UPS capacity of the build system, the build system will have to be shut down. Furthermore, since I'm the only one

[fedora-arm] Builder Update

2011-12-23 Thread Chris Tyler
I worked overnight on the softfp builder issues and found a problem with swap. I've switched to swap-on-SD on 6-5 and upgraded to Dennis' latest kernel, and both seem to be working OK. A kernel is currently building to give a bit of stress-test

Re: [fedora-arm] Build Farm machine details

2011-12-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 09:43 +, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Chris, On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: I've posted some rough notes about the (new) build farm configuration at http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/ARMory - feel free to edit

Re: [fedora-arm] Meeting on Thursday - 3pm UTC (10am EST)

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Tyler
before Thu. 4). Any other business? I'm going to assume we can try having a meeting on the 22nd. If you know that you're just not going to be around please let us know asap. Meeting Logistics - Leaders: ctyler (Chris Tyler), jsmith (Jared Smith), jonmasters (me) IRC: #fedora

[fedora-arm] Build Farm and Holidays

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Tyler
Hi All-- Seneca is closed Dec 23-Jan 2, including the building which houses the Fedora ARM build farm. If you're building during the holidays and encounter issues with the farm, please ping me via mail (this address) or IRC (irc://cty...@irc.freenode.net/fedora-arm) -- I've arranged for physical

[fedora-arm] Build Farm machine details

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Tyler
I've posted some rough notes about the (new) build farm configuration at http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/ARMory - feel free to edit as appropriate (or poke me to add details if needed). -Chris ___ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [fedora-arm] Daily F15 ARM-Koji Build Status

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:05 +, jon.chiappe...@senecac.on.ca wrote: Errors UnbuiltDifferent WorkingBuilt --- 1216 [-21] 11880 [+8975] 52 [+20] 17 [+4]6200 [-27]

[fedora-arm] ARM Build System Upgrading - Downtime Scheduled

2011-12-08 Thread Chris Tyler
At a Seneca team meeting this afternoon, we planned out the upgrade process for the ARM build system. There will be several pre-upgrade operations tomorrow and Monday, with downtime scheduled to begin at 9 am EST / 1400 UTC on Tuesday, December 13. The upgrades should be completed within 48 hours

Re: [fedora-arm] Koji status update

2011-11-17 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 02:55 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: Folks, My take on current progress is that we have a lot of packages with bits still needing to head upstream, and we have a number of package deltas between v5 and v7, but the core set of packages we actually need to get a minimal build

[fedora-arm] VFAD Monday for armv5tel/armv7hl reconcilliation and prep for koji startup

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Tyler
I propose a VFAD to clean up and reconcile armv5tel/armv7hl pre-koji package sets and prep for koji startup: When: Nov 14 - 11:00 am EST / 8:00 am PST / 15:00 UTC where: #fedora-arm What: armv5tel-armv7hl package set reconcilliation, koji prep You us if you can, mail the list with any

[fedora-arm] Fedora ARM on the Raspberry Pi

2011-11-03 Thread Chris Tyler
(Backstory for those unfamiliar with the Raspberry Pi board: The Raspberry Pi Foundation was formed by a group of industry leaders in Cambridge UK who believe that decreasing access to easily-programmable hardware is contributing the decline of interest in CS/IT among young people - compare the

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 16

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 17:49 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: So what's the status of this? Are we using the F-15 as the external repo base for building F-17? When is it going to happen? My understanding is we have enough of both arches built that we can start this rolling. It would be good to see

[fedora-arm] F15 armv5tel update

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Tyler
So Moji has burned through all of the armv5tel builds at least once[0]; we have 4092 successful builds and 915 error builds at this point. Jon and Paul are pulling in some lovingly hand-crafted builds done on the weekend (thanks tinker915 and Henrick) and working through the error'd builds -- any

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 16

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 19:17 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 17:49 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: So what's the status of this? Are we using the F-15 as the external repo base for building F-17? When

Re: [fedora-arm] F15 armv5tel update

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 13:53 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: - compare the armv5tel and armv7hl package sets again Do we need another pretty chart? ;-) Ideally, crontab'd! -Chris ___ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [fedora-arm] F15 armv5tel update

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 14:41 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Ideally, crontab'd! Heh. The trick is finding a machine that has both access to the repos *and* access to a web server, and is powerful enough to run the script in a reasonable time. But I'll see what I can do ;-) We can host on

Re: [fedora-arm] F15 armv5tel update

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 14:52 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: We can host on Australia -- send me an ssh public key for access. Will do. What sort of information do we want this new chart to convey? I think we need to see if the package sets are congruent, so a display of the differences between the

[fedora-arm] Rescheduled to 2011-10-26: Outage: Fedora ARM Build Farm 2011-10-25 14:00 UTC

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 02:37 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: There will be an outage starting at 2011-10-25 14:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. (Services will be restored incrementally, with the x86_64 hosts coming up first, followed by the ARM builders). To convert UTC to your local

[fedora-arm] Outage: Fedora ARM Build Farm 2011-10-25 14:00 UTC

2011-10-21 Thread Chris Tyler
There will be an outage starting at 2011-10-25 14:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. (Services will be restored incrementally, with the x86_64 hosts coming up first, followed by the ARM builders). To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at

Re: [fedora-arm] U-Boot?

2011-10-14 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 10:15 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 10/14/2011 07:20 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Do we have a list of popular (and easy to support) ARM platform? Would this include e.g. the SheevaPlug, GuruPlug, and/or DreamPlug kirkwood-based devices? In the context of the

Re: [fedora-arm] Arm on Qualcomm 7200A

2011-09-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:31 -0430, Kellerman wrote: Hi people, before all sorry for my bad english, I am latinoamerican Ambassador, especifically in Venezuelan, I have a smartphone Huawei, Model UM840. Actually is smartphone leader in Movilnet Carrier. My idea is: Run Fedora in um840 to

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 15 - ARM v5 and v7 plan of attack

2011-09-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 00:32 +0200, Henrik Nordström wrote: Also, do our hacked rpm yum versions work for both arch versions currently? If not then that should be fixed as soon as possible to allow builders to build for both targets. Ideally it would be no more than a diferent mock root

[fedora-arm] Triage for Remaining armv7hl Packages

2011-09-21 Thread Chris Tyler
I'd propose that we get together online tomorrow starting at 1600 UTC (1200 EDT) to triage the list of packages which are still unbuilt for F15 armv7hl, deciding which ones must be built, and which ones we're willing to say won't build in this pass. By doing this, we'll more clearly define the

Re: [fedora-arm] Thumb mode IT instruction requirements and -mimplicit-it assembler flag

2011-09-17 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 23:18 +0200, Henrik Nordström wrote: Is there any drawbacks from enabling implicit IT instruction generation letting GAS automatically deal with this as required by Thumb mode? If not, should we add this to rpmrc? -Wa, -mimplicit-it=thumb from what I can understand

Re: [fedora-arm] UPS Down Time

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 19:25 -0400, salman zafar wrote: The UPS upgrade in seneca cdot will commence on August 3rd, 2011 from EDT:6PM to 6.30PM (UTC: 11PM to 11:30PM). The following machines will not be availble during this maintenance period. hongkong, scotland, ireland, australia Note that

[fedora-arm] ARM Koji system - /mnt/koji

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Tyler
A quick note: the /mnt/koji filesystem on the hub has been moved, it's now 2TB and can be grown further if required. -Chris ___ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm

Re: [fedora-arm] Centos rootfs

2011-07-31 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 01:32 -0400, Donald Gullett wrote: Can anyone point me in the direction of information on building a centos rootfs? You'd have to compile a substantial portion of the CentOS package collection for ARM, then create a rootfs based on that. How was the fedora rootfs setup

Re: [fedora-arm] Bogus hongkong host entries in F14 ARM koji repo

2011-07-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 09:59 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: You'll be greeted by a longish list (432) of packages with a bogus url, all of them on http://hongkong/yum/base/12/arm;. Its a known issue, I thought it

[fedora-arm] Fedora-ARM Shirts

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Tyler
I want a Fedora-ARM t-shirt! Anyone else interested in getting some made up? Any ideas on design? (One idea that crossed my mind was a medium blue shirt with Fedora ARM on the sleeve, but maybe that's too subtle :-) -Chris ___ arm mailing list

Re: [fedora-arm] smsc95xx performance bug: eth vs usb

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Tyler
Today Salman Zafar and I observed something that we hadn't noticed before (not sure if it didn't happen, or we didn't notice it) -- the PandaBoards in the build farm have high latency, with occasional packet drops, when pinged at 1-second intervals (the default for the 'ping' command). Oddly,

Re: [fedora-arm] adding fake-kernel to repository

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 23:35 -0400, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: hello guys any reason to not include fake-kernel into respository ? http://hongkong.proximity.on.ca/yum/source/12/arm/fake-kernel-provides-1.0.0-0.fc12.src.rpm Yes... it's not in the Fedora package collection. Feel free to

Re: [fedora-arm] [Fwd: Activity Day June 10th - ARMv7 F15 hardfp bringup]

2011-06-05 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 09:54 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 20:53 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: [0] We're making a one time incompatible ABI switch in F-15 bringup to the hard float ABI defined in section 6

Re: [fedora-arm] F15 package dependency graph

2011-06-05 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 09:46 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Jon Masters wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 16:40 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Jon Masters wrote: Oh, it can all be done :) I'm just curious what exists already. Perhaps Dennis can help fill in

Re: [fedora-arm] F15 package dependency graph

2011-06-04 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 00:07 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Jon Masters j...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 16:40 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Jon Masters wrote: Oh, it can all be done :) I'm just curious what exists already.

[fedora-arm] Using the ARM git repo

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Tyler
It looks like there's interest in doing a number of things via the Fedora-ARM git repo. To clone it, use: git clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/arm.git (if you don't intend to push) - or - after uploading your ssh public key to FAS: git clone

[fedora-arm] Fedora ARM at Seneca: Slowing Down to Speed Up

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Tyler
A short note to let you know what's up at Seneca as far as Fedora ARM... This week CDOT (our research centre) is shutting down to give our research staff a break and to let faculty do end-of-semester cleanup and transition work. The next week (starting May 2), Paul Whalen and I will be joined by

Re: [fedora-arm] New Status Page Mockup

2011-03-10 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 14:43 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 02:10 -0500, Houssam Haidar wrote: I've love to get some feedback on this Hi Houssam, I've been thinking about the build-farm and the utilization of its capacity. I wrote a quick'n'dirty script last night

Re: [fedora-arm] New Status Page Mockup

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 02:10 -0500, Houssam Haidar wrote: Hello, I'm currently working on the new status page for the Fedora ARM project. Here's what I have so far: http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~hhaidar/arm-comm/ and here's a download link:

Re: [fedora-arm] arm fedora smaller rootfs

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:08 +0800, 钟威 wrote: Hi guys, I wanted to a smaller fedora 12 rootfs for arm,but I downloaded the rootfs(rootfs-f12.tar.bz2 ) had 102MB, how can I do to make a smaller rootfs or which websit I can download.I need you help and hope all guys can help me! Thanks

[fedora-arm] Building Updates

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Tyler
(Cross-posted to arm@ and secondary@) We're approaching the release of F13 for ARM. It's about to hit EOL on the primary archs, so it has a short shelf life, but I'm going to use that time to figure out the best process for building updates -- with a goal of having the updates procedure well in

Re: [fedora-arm] Building Updates

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 07:39 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 07:18:02 AM Chris Tyler wrote: There are a few options here: [A] Use koji-shadow against dist-fX-updates-candidate PA (and targeting dist-fX-updates-candidate SA) and use a separate process to manage

Re: [fedora-arm] Fat Binaries (was Re: arm@lists.fedoraproject.org)

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 09:47 +, Nick Clifton wrote: As part of a possible solution to the problem of how to bootstrap a hard-float ARM Fedora port, I am working on a script to create fat ARM binaries. These are binaries which use the soft-float API, but which contain a

Re: [fedora-arm] arm@lists.fedoraproject.org

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 12:50 -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: On 03/02/2011 07:31 AM, omall...@msu.edu wrote: Is there a way to strip out What one you aren't using? IE i don't have an fpu, therefore I want to strip out the hardfpu code for a smaller binary. Just to clarify, this script and

Re: [fedora-arm] Fat Binaries (was Re: arm@lists.fedoraproject.org)

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 08:15 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info writes: Hi Nick, I haven't set up a testing configuration yet but this looks very much like what we need. Before each linking pass, will the script attempt to flip all the libraries

Re: [fedora-arm] 1ghz ARM Laptop (12in 1280x800 LCD)

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:14 -0500, omall...@msu.edu wrote: couple it with the A15 quad's I think A15 Quads are quite a ways off -- I've heard it said a numbher of times that when ARM announces something, they're talking about designs (which their partners then build), unlike AMD or Intel who

Re: [fedora-arm] uImage-2.6.30-sheevaplug is definitely broken

2011-01-08 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 12:28 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Just a note to say that I'm having the precise same problem described here: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2010-December/thread.html#786 'Mojibake' after the kernel is uncompressed. No tty settings seem to fix

Re: [fedora-arm] uImage-2.6.30-sheevaplug is definitely broken

2011-01-08 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 18:36 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: Chris Tyler píše v So 08. 01. 2011 v 12:20 -0500: On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 12:28 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Just a note to say that I'm having the precise same problem described here: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail

Re: [fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils

2011-01-07 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 20:23 +, Andy Green wrote: On 01/07/11 19:46, Somebody in the thread at some point said: ..snip.. This must be a bug in sha512sum -- it shouldn't be affected by alignment. I am inclined to think it might be compiler related. Andy's package is the same

Re: [fedora-arm] F14 qemu arm default board

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 16:02 +, Gordan Bobic wrote: omall...@msu.edu wrote: In F14 x86, we finally have the ability to add an ARM based VM via the libvirt management tool!! IE you can go through the GUI and set up an qemu based arm VM*. What's the performance like? Is there

Re: [fedora-arm] ARMv7 rootfs/repository?

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:01 -0800, Andrew Burgess wrote: On 12/22/2010 06:30:13 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: There is an expected performance gain with the switch to hardfp, but that's a big challenge: you can't mix softfp and hardfp, so switching to hardfp is like bootstrapping an entirely

Re: [fedora-arm] SheevaPlug / Fedora 12

2010-12-18 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 19:36 +, Gordan Bobic wrote: Sorry, just remembered that this might be useful to add: Marvell printenv baudrate=115200 loads_echo=0 rootpath=/mnt/ARM_FS/ console=a e=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0xc0...@0(uboot)ro,0x1ff00...@0x10(root) CASset=min

Re: [fedora-arm] fedora login by uart

2010-12-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:47 +0800, 钟威 wrote: Hi Chris, 1.The rootfs is fedora12 which is for arm I download from offical website. 2.I used serial port on my PC to connect my board(freescale imx5) and I boot my board through NFS Server. 3.I am using Fedora13 on my PC. 4.I am

Re: [fedora-arm] fedora login by uart

2010-12-15 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:48 +0800, 钟威 wrote: Dear all, I can't login fedora arm rootfs by uart on my PC linux.Any suggestions? Thanks! Best Regards, William Hi William, Can you tell us more?: * What kind of ARM system do you have? * How is it connected to your PC? (serial port on

Re: [fedora-arm] Support for ARMv7, hardware math

2010-11-28 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 11:14 +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: hardfp would break compatibility with all of the existing binary packages, and hardfp can't be compiled by gcc for any of the CPUs I have got my hands on so far

[fedora-arm] Support for ARMv7, hardware math

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Tyler
So I've had a number of conversations with Dennis Gilmore and folks from other ARM disro ports about v7 support, and particularly with respect to hardware math. (In addition, one of the Seneca students is currently investigating v5 vs. v7 support in an attempt to figure out how much of the Fedora

[fedora-arm] Status Page

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Tyler
I've added a (rudimentary, really ugly) status page to the arm koji web site. The URL is: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/status/ This page provides access to the log files from the current build-previous and/or koji-shadow runs, and Paul Whalen added a link to the last koji-compare run. I

Re: [fedora-arm] SheevaPlug donation, where to send?

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 08:32 -0500, Adam Miller wrote: Hello all, I purchased a SheevaPlug because I was planning to use it for a masters thesis about embedded computing but I honestly never even got around to pulling it out of the box before my topic of focus changed so I would like to

Re: [fedora-arm] How to get started?

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 14:58 +1000, Andrew van der Stock wrote: On 13/07/2010, at 11:06 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: - Start fixing up packages that don't build successfully for arm. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Packages_needing_patching contains a list of 44 packages that we

Re: [fedora-arm] How to get started?

2010-07-13 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 16:49 +1000, Andrew van der Stock wrote: Hi there, I've offered to help with the OLPC ARM port for OLPC 1.75. Obviously this hardware doesn't exist yet, so I have a few questions. I've just installed x64 F13 and got a Fedora account. 1. How is the best way to get

Re: [fedora-arm] GuruPlug and micro SDHC cards

2010-05-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 09:49 +0200, Bernhard Schuster wrote: Hi! I just received my GuruPlug Server Plus, but I am not willing to break it by flashing the internal NAND (I got 2 left hands considering flashing : ) so I want to use the micro SD card slot. The point is: Does it suppoert

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 12 updates still rsyncing?

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 20:14 +0200, Till Maas wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:49:18PM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: The Fedora-ARM builds from around F8 though F12 were built on Lennert's koji farm in Europe. That was recently decommissioned, and there's a new koji farm being built here

Re: [fedora-arm] Collecting kernel configs

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:12 -0700, Jeff Moe wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 11:28:12 Chris Tyler wrote: I'm interested in building a collection of kernel configs for various ARM systems to see what's common and what's different. If you have a kernel config file that works for your device