[fedora-arm] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

2015-11-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Someone I know is after an ARM 64 bit development board, and pointed me at this. I'd never heard of it :-( http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov Has anyone tried it? It's based on the APM X-Gene1, so in theory should work the same as the APM Mustang. Rich. -- Richar

[fedora-arm] virt-builder Fedora/aarch64 image (was: Re: Fedora 23 for aarch64 is here!)

2015-11-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Although this is *not* the official cloud image, I have built an aarch64 image for virt-builder. To get it do: $ virt-builder --arch aarch64 fedora-23 - - - One day this request will be implemented: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5805 and virt-builder will be able to use

[fedora-arm] Re: armhfp-rawhide-20160130-sda images

2016-02-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:07:39AM -0500, Paul Whalen wrote: > - Original Message - > > I have just tried the following images on a Cubietruck > > > > > > > > Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-rawhide-20160130-sda.raw > > > > Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-rawhide-20160130-sda.raw > > > > both of these images

[fedora-arm] 32 bit ARM guest on aarch64 host

2016-02-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I've been trying to get a 32 bit Fedora/armv7hl guest to boot on a 64 bit Fedora/aarch64 host. Host: Fedora Rawhide, aarch64 on Mustang Guest: Fedora 22 disk image from: $ virt-builder --arch armv7l fedora-22 I should say that: (1) I can boot this guest using an external and and some hand

[fedora-arm] Re: 32 bit ARM guest on aarch64 host

2016-02-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 01:33:26PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Should I try a newer guest? I am going to try updating to Fedora 23. Same thing. Attached is the qemu command line. In this run I'm using some hand-constructed XML, not 'virt-install --import' as bef

[fedora-arm] Re: 32 bit ARM guest on aarch64 host

2016-02-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:45:55AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Saturday, February 27, 2016 03:44:04 PM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 01:33:26PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Should I try a newer guest? I am going to try updating to Fedora

[fedora-arm] Re: 96Boards Enterprise Edition Cello

2016-03-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 07:18:23AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I wanted to just drop a quick note that we're making *great* progress > toward having early 96Boards "Cello" boards for Fedora enablement > purposes. These are (AArch64) AMD Seattle based boards: > > http://www.lenovator

[fedora-arm] Re: armhf dnf is not working on aarch64 kernel

2016-04-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:18:05PM +0900, Chanho Park wrote: > I want to use the armhf fedora rootfs on the aarch64 bit kernel. > When I ran the dnf command on the armhf image with aarch64 kernel, the > dnf command was failed with below error. Leaving aside the question of kernel page size, what's

[fedora-arm] Re: 2:qemu-system-x86-2.6.0-4.fc25.aarch64 -> edk2-ovmf dependency

2016-07-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > If we can't build edk2 x86_64 bios blob on aarch64, and can't import > the previously built noarch packages, then seems to say the only > option left is to split the edk2 package into two source packages. > One that exclusively b

[fedora-arm] Re: cross rpmbuild for arm

2016-07-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 02:11:03AM +0900, Chanho Park wrote: > I found an old patches to build arm rpm binary through cross compile[1]. > However, it's quite old and hard to apply them into current version. > Is there any trial to build cross compiling packages for arm? I really don't think it's a

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

2011-01-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
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 it[*]. The wiki links to the uImage-2.6.30-sheevaplug image all over, b

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

2011-01-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:36:47AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > FWIW, I've been using http://sheeva.with-linux.com/sheeva/ for my Sheeva > kernels. I used these as well. They appear to work perfectly. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libgue

Re: [fedora-arm] LLVM

2011-09-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:29:35PM -0400, Jonathan Masters wrote: > llvm (needs ocaml) I don't know exactly what the OCaml dep is here, but I'll just say that (a) [thanks to DJ Delorie] I pushed out a new ocaml package in Rawhide today which should build a native compiler on %{arm}, and (b) even i

[fedora-arm] F17 rootfs on Trim Slice = kernel problems

2012-03-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I tried the rootfs posted here: http://fedora.roving-it.com/rootfs-f17-hfp-alpha1.tar.bz2 on a Trim Slice. However the included kernel (3.3.0-0.rc4.git3.1.fc17.armv7hl.tegra) gives lots of errors like this: [ 572.198943] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/free

Re: [fedora-arm] F17 rootfs on Trim Slice = kernel problems

2012-03-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +, Leif Lindholm wrote: > Brendan Conoboy pointed me to > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.42.2/1.fc15/armv7hl/kernel-tegra-2.6.42.2-1.fc15.armv7hl.rpm > which boots without either issue. Thanks. How do people install this in the rootfs

[fedora-arm] fedpkg & Fedora git

2012-03-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Should I commit ARM-specific changes back into Fedora git? (Using %ifarch of course) I noticed that fedpkg didn't even work in F15, but I compiled my own version from upstream so I can now use fedpkg to build stuff from Fedora git. The fact that fedpkg didn't work was a bit discouraging. Rich.

Re: [fedora-arm] F17 rootfs on Trim Slice = kernel problems

2012-03-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:26:48PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +, Leif Lindholm wrote: > >> Brendan Conoboy pointed me to > >> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/pack

Re: [fedora-arm] fedpkg & Fedora git

2012-03-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:38:05PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > Should I commit ARM-specific changes back into Fedora git? > > (Using %ifarch of course) > > > > I noticed that fedpkg didn't e

Re: [fedora-arm] F17 rootfs on Trim Slice = kernel problems

2012-03-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:33:53PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:26:48PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +, Leif Lindholm wrote

Re: [fedora-arm] F17 rootfs on Trim Slice = kernel problems

2012-03-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:47:07PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:33:53PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:26:48PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones > > >

Re: [fedora-arm] Updated Fedora ARM qemu images?

2012-03-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:02:26PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 03/22/2012 01:30 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > >On 03/22/2012 11:10 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > >>I started looking at: > >> > >>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu > >> > >>VM starts okay in F16 with setseb

Re: [fedora-arm] Updated Fedora ARM qemu images?

2012-03-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I cannot get qemu-system-arm to boot any of our F17 kernels, but here's what I did anyway. # Make a disk image: $ wget 'http://fedora.roving-it.com/rootfs-f17-hfp-alpha1.tar.bz2' $ bunzip2 rootfs-f17-hfp-alpha1.tar.bz2 $ virt-make-fs -s 2G -t ext3 -F raw --partition=mbr rootfs-f17-hfp-alpha1.tar

[fedora-arm] Some comments on bconoboy's trimslice images

2012-04-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
In general pretty good - they work well. However there are a few problems I encountered: (1) There's no source for the boot scripts. I think you should put the source along side the binaries, in /boot/uboot. I ended up using 'strings' and reconstructing them. (2) The sda boot script works fin

Re: [fedora-arm] Some comments on bconoboy's trimslice images

2012-04-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 09:42:22AM -0500, David A. Marlin wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >In general pretty good - they work well. However there are a few > >problems I encountered: > > > >(1) There's no source for the boot scripts. I think you should

Re: [fedora-arm] Some comments on bconoboy's trimslice images

2012-04-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:12:03AM -0500, David A. Marlin wrote: > I don't know how that works, but since it does I think it would be > good to leverage that approach (whatever it is). It seems to do this. See anaconda.git/pyanaconda/livecd.py: rootDevice.format.targetSize = rootDevice.s

[fedora-arm] getcontext returns ENOSYS

2012-04-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Has anyone tried to port software which uses getcontext/setcontext (ie. coroutines, green threads etc)? Although we have compiled qemu for ARM, it fails to run because getcontext returns an error with errno == ENOSYS. qemu contains its own coroutine implementation. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Vir

Re: [fedora-arm] getcontext returns ENOSYS

2012-04-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:58:38PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Has anyone tried to port software which uses getcontext/setcontext > (ie. coroutines, green threads etc)? > > Although we have compiled qemu for ARM, it fails to run because > getcontext returns an error wi

[fedora-arm] FYI: New OCaml ARM code generator

2012-04-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I'm in the process of backporting the new, rewritten OCaml ARM code generator to OCaml 3.12.1. This may necessitate recompiling all OCaml packages in ARM, but I'll also start on that tomorrow. The particular reason for doing this is support for natdynlink (dynamic linking of OCaml code -- think o

Re: [fedora-arm] FYI: New OCaml ARM code generator

2012-04-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi Richard, > > All sounds really cool. > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones > wrote: > > I'm in the process of backporting the new, rewritten OCaml ARM code > > g

Re: [fedora-arm] getcontext returns ENOSYS

2012-04-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw >From 53aad475518f35da7430aa86abf4f94dae7c5d30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:35:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] glibc: Backport

Re: [fedora-arm] getcontext returns ENOSYS

2012-04-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 03:29:54PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > For the record, attached is the patch to Fedora glibc.  It works, and > > gets us past the missing ucontext problem. > > If we need this

Re: [fedora-arm] Updated Fedora ARM qemu images?

2012-04-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:33:24AM -0500, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: > El 23/03/12 01:19, Richard W.M. Jones escribió: > >I cannot get qemu-system-arm to boot any of our F17 kernels, but > >here's what I did anyway. > > > ># Make a disk image: > > > >$

Re: [fedora-arm] FYI: New OCaml ARM code generator

2012-04-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
[Just to clarify my previous email, the ARM work was done upstream by Benedikt Meurer of the University of Siegen. I'm merely backporting that work to Fedora.] I've now updated the OCaml compiler (ocaml) and ocaml-findlib packages. The other packages will need to be recompiled, and I'm working m

Re: [fedora-arm] FYI: New OCaml ARM code generator

2012-04-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 01:26:11PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > [Just to clarify my previous email, the ARM work was done upstream by > > Benedikt Meurer of the University of Siegen.  I'm merely backporting >

Re: [fedora-arm] FYI: New OCaml ARM code generator

2012-04-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 03:37:31PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > It won't build in koji-shadow until it's at least built and tagged > into either f18 or f-17 updates-testing or stable. So you get things > built and once it starts to filter through I can give you failures. OK, but this is very ind

Re: [fedora-arm] [libguestfs] Update supported filesystems for ARM

2012-05-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
%{arm} > %if !0%{?rhel} > Requires: zfs-fuse > %endif > +%endif > > # These are only required if you want to build the bindings for > # different languages: > @@ -1065,6 +1077,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT > > > %changelog > +* Tue May 1 2012 Peter

[fedora-arm] Debugging our kernels under qemu + gdb

2012-05-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Has anyone tried to debug our Fedora/arm kernels under qemu-system-arm? (In this case, the host is also arm, but I don't think that matters.) After a lot of effort, I've managed to get to the point where prints this on the serial port: Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. and then

Re: [fedora-arm] Debugging our kernels under qemu + gdb

2012-05-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:04:40PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > => 0x005fe934: nop ; (mov r0, r0) > 0x005fe938: b 0x5fe934 Well I guess there's more than one way to skin this cat. I disassembled the whole of vmlinux and found the c

Re: [fedora-arm] Debugging our kernels under qemu + gdb

2012-05-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
... and setting the right emulated -cpu, it boots! For reference (mainly mine), here is the qemu command line that works: kernel=3.3.4-4.fc17.armv7hl QEMUDIR=$HOME/d/qemu exec \ $QEMUDIR/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm \ -s \ -M versatilepb \ -cpu arm926 \ -nodefaults \ -nographic \ -serial stdio \

Re: [fedora-arm] Debugging our kernels under qemu + gdb

2012-05-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:41:43PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > On 05/11/2012 01:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >Has anyone tried to debug our Fedora/arm kernels under qemu-system-arm? > >(In this case, the host is also arm, but I don't think that matters.) > > R

Re: [fedora-arm] Debugging our kernels under qemu + gdb

2012-05-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:41:43PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > On 05/11/2012 01:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >Has anyone tried to debug our Fedora/arm kernels under qemu-system-arm? > >(In this case, the host is also arm, but I don't think that matters.) > > R

Re: [fedora-arm] USB stick not seen on Trimslice

2012-05-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:37:09AM -0400, George Hunt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I recently installed 2.6.41.7-1.0.arm1.y1.armv7hl.tegra on a Trimslice SATA > drive, and much to my amazement, it booted right up! > > Now I've discovered that a USB stick is seen during the boot process, but > if it

Re: [fedora-arm] Debugging our kernels under qemu + gdb

2012-05-13 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:34:13AM +1200, Michael Hope wrote: > On 12 May 2012 22:12, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:41:43PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > >> On 05/11/2012 01:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> >Has anyone tried to debu

Re: [fedora-arm] Debugging our kernels under qemu + gdb

2012-05-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:57:09AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On 05/13/2012 04:34 PM, Michael Hope wrote: > > On 12 May 2012 22:12, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:41:43PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > >>> On 05/11/2012 01:04 PM, Richar

Re: [fedora-arm] Test request: epiphany on armv7hl

2012-05-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:58:04PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > OLPC are seeing a javascript-triggered crash in WebKit on armv7hl. > > I'd love to know if this is reproducible on other platforms. Anyone up > for running a quick test on non-OLPC? > > Test case is: > 1. Install epiphany >

Re: [fedora-arm] Test request: epiphany on armv7hl

2012-05-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:20:04PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > With the caveat that I was doing it remotely (X over ssh), yes it > > segfaulted for me as well. > > Thanks for the quick test! Just for the recor

Re: [fedora-arm] vexpress kernel config

2012-05-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:31:13AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Folks, > > Here's an update to the config-arm-generic in the scratch build from > earlier. Once again, I insist (please) that we build in MMCI. If you > look at the other configs (tegra,omap...) you'll see plenty of options > that are

Re: [fedora-arm] vexpress kernel config

2012-05-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
(That is, all virtio-* modules that can compile on ARM/vexpress.) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.r

Re: [fedora-arm] vexpress kernel config

2012-05-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 02:01:51PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On 05/16/2012 05:59 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > No virtio at all? I've not used it, but there's a virtio-mmio module > > upstream since 2011-10. If it compiles, please add it to the config, >

[fedora-arm] Nexus 7

2012-07-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I know we don't support tablets. That's been pretty comprehensively covered on the list already, eg: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-April/003107.html But! Suddenly a tablet appears which is both much cheaper and (in some respects) far more powerful than the Trim Slices and

Re: [fedora-arm] Nexus 7

2012-07-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 03:32:39PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > It's possible if the relevant kernel code is upstream. I've got one on > order with the intention of looking at what would be required to make > it work and to hack around with it. [...] > I'm also looking at the asus TF series as th

Re: [fedora-arm] Nexus 7

2012-07-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 03:23:41PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 07/03/2012 03:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > >I know we don't support tablets. That's been pretty comprehensively > >covered on the list already, eg: > > > >https://lists.fedora

Re: [fedora-arm] Package: libguestfs-1.19.43-1.fc18 Tag: f18 Status: failed Built by: pbrobinson

2012-09-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:29:00AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:30:22PM +, Fedora ARM Koji Build System > > wrote: > >> Package: libguestfs-1.19.43-1.fc18 > >> Tag: f

Re: [fedora-arm] Package: libguestfs-1.19.43-1.fc18 Tag: f18 Status: failed Built by: pbrobinson

2012-09-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:08:50PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:00:40PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:29:00AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Richard W.M. Jones > > >

Re: [fedora-arm] Initial Chromebook install instructions

2012-12-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:19:51PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_Chromebook_2012 > > Do not follow any of these instructions unless: > > 1). You know what you are doing. > 2). You understand that you may cause damage to your Chrombook. In > p

Re: [fedora-arm] Initial Chromebook install instructions

2012-12-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:39:17PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > On 12/06/2012 05:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:19:51PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_Chromebook_2012 > >> >

[fedora-arm] Booting Fedora kernels on qemu, and the current state of emulated virtio/PCI

2012-12-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Does anyone have a quick overview of $SUBJECT? In particular: I cannot get any Fedora kernels to boot on the latest qemu, unless I use -M vexpress-a{9,15}. Has support for -M versatilepb been dropped? vexpress-a{9,15} doesn't support PCI, which means it doesn't support virtio (especially virti

[fedora-arm] KVM on Samsung Chromebook A15 (was: Re: Announcing Fedora 19 (Schrödinger's cat) for the 2012 Samsung Chromebook)

2013-07-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:59:28AM -0500, Jon wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the availability of Fedora 19 for the 2012 Samsung > Chromebook featuring ARM Exynos dual core A15 processor. Sorry to slightly hijack this thread. I will try your remix later. Reading the comments on https://lwn.net/

Re: [fedora-arm] KVM on Samsung Chromebook A15

2013-07-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:30:01AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On 07/05/2013 05:07 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:59:28AM -0500, Jon wrote: > >> I'm pleased to announce the availability of Fedora 19 for the 2012 Samsung > >> Chromeboo

Re: [fedora-arm] Is it time to get an arm notebook?

2013-08-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 01:25:34PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: > > I need to replace my Lenovo x120e duo core Fedora (F17 still) notebook soon; > > I am getting USB errors... > > > > So can I get a comparable arm notebook to get better

[fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt. I'm using cheap SanDisk cards in both (not exactly sure of the model, but they're the cheapest

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:42:53PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim > Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk > at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a ha

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:59:47AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 1 August 2013 09:53, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen > > wrote: > >> On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >>> I'm n

Re: [fedora-arm] heads up - Qt qreal difference on ARM

2013-08-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:49:12PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: > http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.6/qtglobal.html#qreal-typedef > > typedef qreal > > Typedef for double on all platforms except for those using CPUs with > ARM architectures. On ARM-based platforms, qreal is a typedef for > float for per

[fedora-arm] FYI: D language compiler (ldc) FTBFS on arm

2013-08-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
The 'ldc' package (D language compiler) FTBFS on arm. This of course prevents every D program from compiling. I have no idea what the issue is, although I could reproduce it locally and on Koji. Anyway, I have opened an upstream bug about it: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10748

Re: [fedora-arm] KVM on Samsung Chromebook A15

2013-08-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:47:28AM -0400, Adam Goode wrote: > Was there ever a resolution to this? I am happy to file a bug in the > chromium tracker to get this looked at, if needed. Not that I know of, but in the meantime we found this interesting document: https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/piperma

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

2013-08-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 02:42:45PM -0400, Paul Whalen wrote: > > > Good afternoon all, > > Below is a list of ARM related talks at FLOCK beginning this Friday, August > 9th. > If your talk is not listed and related to ARM please send it to the list. > > For further details on these exciting

[fedora-arm] Is it possible to boot Samsung Chromebook from USB 3 external hard disk?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I've followed the instructions here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19/Remixes#Samsung_2012_Chromebook twice, with a SD card and an external USB 3.0 hard disk. To cut a long story short, SD card works fine, but USB hard disk just beeps and fails to boot. The USB hard disk is

Re: [fedora-arm] Is it possible to boot Samsung Chromebook from USB 3 external hard disk?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:16:30AM -0500, Jon wrote: > The nv-u-boot on KERN-B partition can boot from usb but I've not tested. > Might try that durring flock. How would one try to boot from that? Also, it doesn't seem to be even reaching any Linux kernel. At any rate, there are no kernel messag

Re: [fedora-arm] Is it possible to boot Samsung Chromebook from USB 3 external hard disk?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 03:23:39PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:16:30AM -0500, Jon wrote: > > The nv-u-boot on KERN-B partition can boot from usb but I've not tested. > > Might try that durring flock. > > How would one try to boot from

Re: [fedora-arm] Is it possible to boot Samsung Chromebook from USB 3 external hard disk?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:28:09AM -0500, Jon wrote: > Tap the space bar durring boot. Space bar; as in re-enable OS verification and delete local data? > Then we have to fixup your bootcmd to usb How to do this? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~

[fedora-arm] What ARM hardware for KVM? (was: KVM on Samsung Chromebook A15)

2013-08-21 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
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? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many

Re: [fedora-arm] Valgrind: unrecognised instruction

2013-08-21 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:16:49PM -0600, Jerry James wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to track down a problem with the frama-c package. It runs > normally on i386 and x86_64, but exits immediately with an unhandled > exception on arm. It is written in ocaml, which makes debugging > difficult

Re: [fedora-arm] Valgrind: unrecognised instruction

2013-08-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 03:33:45PM -0600, Jerry James wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > [Sorry for the late response] > > Sorry I didn't mention that I solved my problem already! > > > GDB should work fine. It certainly

Re: [fedora-arm] Is it possible to boot Samsung Chromebook from USB 3 external hard disk?

2013-08-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:43:57PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 08.08.2013 15:11, Richard W.M. Jones pisze: > > > I can't find any documentation that says that the Chromebook > > definitively cannot boot from USB 3.0 or from external HDDs. (Also it > &g

Re: [fedora-arm] Is it possible to boot Samsung Chromebook from USB 3 external hard disk?

2013-08-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:19:24AM -0400, William Cohen wrote: > Could the problem with the hard drive be due to power? Is it just > the hard drive on the usb port or are there multiple devices off an > unpowered usb hub? I did have to get a powered hub for my > configuration because the usb hard

[fedora-arm] AArch64 Fedora images anywhere?

2013-09-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Richard Henderson's AArch64 TCG patch is taking shape on qemu-devel: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-09/msg00347.html All I need is something to boot on it! Are we making images available yet or do I need to trawl through the lengthy instructions here? https://fedoraproje

Re: [fedora-arm] AArch64 Fedora images anywhere?

2013-09-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 11:10:20PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > Richard Henderson's AArch64 TCG patch is taking shape on qemu-devel: > > > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/

Re: [fedora-arm] AArch64 Fedora images anywhere?

2013-09-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 11:18:10PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 11:10:20PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Richard W.M. Jones > >wrote: &g

[fedora-arm] ARM & KVM : KVM_RUN returns -ENXIO

2013-09-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Meta question: What is the best upstream list for discussing ARM & KVM issues? Or ARM & virt issues in general? I'm trying to get stock qemu from git or qemu 1.6 to boot a guest using KVM. My host has a 3.11.0 LPAE kernel, and it exposes a /dev/kvm device. qemu can open this devi

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM & KVM : KVM_RUN returns -ENXIO

2013-09-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 01:02:39PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > All places in general where ENXIO might be returned are related to the > function "irqchip_in_kernel" and the mysterious "VGIC" hardware (which > I guess is doing interrupt routing like APIC on

[fedora-arm] libguestfs on ARM

2013-09-08 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
libguestfs now has experimental support for 32-bit ARM, including KVM on ARM. You will need at least the following to make it all work: - libguestfs 1.23.21 + 6e498461f6 Use ./configure --with-default-backend=direct. The libvirt backend does not work (yet). - supermin 4.1.5 + a55d9cf157 -

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM & KVM : KVM_RUN returns -ENXIO

2013-09-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:27:48PM -0400, William Cohen wrote: > On 09/07/2013 08:16 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 01:02:39PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> All places in general where ENXIO might be returned are related to the > >>

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM & KVM : KVM_RUN returns -ENXIO

2013-09-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 02:32:55PM -0400, William Cohen wrote: [...] Thanks for the links. I will get back to ARM once I've got libguestfs working on PPC64 ... In the meantime: > I tried to run a couple of the systemtap virtualization examples on > the host > (https://sourceware.org/systemtap/e

Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora ARM remix kernels

2013-09-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:43:12AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > Before I forget about this again it might be worth recommending to creators > of remixes to exclude the kernel from Fedora yum repo configs and put a > large banner on the remix page reminding users not to upgrade to a F

[fedora-arm] Any opinions on ODROID-XU ?

2013-10-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
If you can stand a very slow web site: http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G137510300620 There is apparently an unofficial Fedora 19 image which boots (http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=2366). I've no idea if/where they are making source available, or

Re: [fedora-arm] Any opinions on ODROID-XU ?

2013-10-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 07:46:15AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > There is apparently an unofficial Fedora 19 image which boots > (http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=2366). I've no idea > if/where they are making source available, or even if it needs patches. So

Re: [fedora-arm] Any opinions on ODROID-XU ?

2013-10-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 01:27:43PM -0400, Arun Thomas wrote: > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Jon wrote: > > > I decided to avoid this one, and instead wait for the next Chromebook with > > 5420. > > > > Has anyone tried to wire up serial to the current Chromebook? How about a USB serial port

Re: [fedora-arm] Fwd: decent reasonably-priced armhf system with sata, gigabit ethernet, dual-core processor and 2gb of RAM

2013-10-19 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:30:15PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > i posted this to the debian-arm list but it occurred to me that you > guys might appreciate having a decent desktop-style system as well as > something with enough RAM to do compiles of some of the larger > packages without needing to

Re: [fedora-arm] Fwd: decent reasonably-priced armhf system with sata, gigabit ethernet, dual-core processor and 2gb of RAM

2013-10-19 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 07:31:20PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:30:15PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > >> i posted this to the debian-arm list but it occurred to me that you > >> g

Re: [fedora-arm] Fwd: decent reasonably-priced armhf system with sata, gigabit ethernet, dual-core processor and 2gb of RAM

2013-10-21 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:51:30PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> At the moment I believe the best bet for this sort of support will be > >> the Allwinner SOCs (and I never thought I'd be typing that) and we'll > >> work with Hans to ensure his remix is usable and that we support as > >> much as

Re: [fedora-arm] How to debug: Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive

2013-10-24 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:11:57PM -0500, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: > How do I peek into the initramfs memory from within the Linux > system, in order to check the actual contents to see where the > corruption is? Is there any block device to check? It doesn't work like this. When the kernel b

Re: [fedora-arm] How to debug: Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive

2013-10-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:42:49PM -0500, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: > Just for the record, the actual size of the on-disk initramfs is > 7861729 bytes. I padded it with 7 extra zero bytes to make the size > a multiple of 8, in case the bootloader requires an 8-byte > restriction. Why 8-byte? The

[fedora-arm] Arndale Octa

2013-10-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
http://www.pyrustek.com/ $179 ex tax at the moment Exynos 5420-based, ie. 8 core big.LITTLE. What do people think about this one? (Note I'm only interested in this for KVM development.) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming

Re: [fedora-arm] Arndale Octa

2013-10-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:26:10PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: > There is also the odroid-xu at http://www.hardkernel.com/ for 169.00 . Yup, got that. Something of a pain so far. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: htt

Re: [fedora-arm] Arndale Octa

2013-10-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Unfortunately they only support wire transfers which are like £10 from the UK and a giant PITA. Come on guys, Paypal ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows instal

Re: [fedora-arm] Arndale Octa

2013-10-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:44:25PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: > Does the [ODROID-XU] product work? Yes and no. Yes I've got it to work and I'm now using it for some light compiling. However there are some major shortcomings from my point of view (as someone looking specifically for a KVM / hardwa

Re: [fedora-arm] Arndale Octa

2013-10-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:04:17PM +, Sid Boyce wrote: > The latest kernel I built and have running is 3.8.13.10 with Mali > 400 GPU support and 3.8.13.11 awaiting a reboot. [...] > As for the platform itself, I natively build kernels and everything > else including Qt-5.1.1 as it has enough po

[fedora-arm] FYI: AArch64 code generator for OCaml

2013-11-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Yay! https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/tree/trunk/asmcomp/arm64 I'll include this in the next OCaml release, likely targeting Fedora 22. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build

Re: [fedora-arm] [linux-sunxi] Re: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support

2013-11-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 08:11:35PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/11/2013 07:56 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > >On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:01:05 -0800 (PST) > >deasy wrote: > > > >>Mele A1000G support ? Sure ? It's with an A31 right ? > >>As someone asked on the channel linux-sunxi for linux

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