Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-13 Thread Scott Sullivan
On 08/11/2012 12:11 AM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: I have tested creating images with console / xfce and doesnt work. the image from website bellow boots fine. The nightly hardware packs are configured to use the

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-09 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/08/2012 11:38 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: On 08/08/2012 09:57 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: On 08/08/2012 09:14 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: On 08/08/2012 02:44 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: [...] # Needs to be Modified to support Fedora .zx tar

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: The problem is that you will need a USB/ethernet dongle right now, and that means you have to build your own kernel. So a single image is not really possible at the moment. Steve OK I see. Thanks. Let me

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-08 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/08/2012 08:45 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: The problem is that you will need a USB/ethernet dongle right now, and that means you have to build your own kernel. So a single image is not really possible at the

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-08 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: On 08/06/2012 11:59 PM, Jon wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: On 08/03/2012 06:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: [...] Ok - I have Fedora 17 running on the Mele. It is quite a hack, but it is

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-08 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: On 08/06/2012 11:59 PM, Jon wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: On 08/03/2012 06:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: [...] Ok - I have Fedora 17 running on the Mele. It is quite a hack, but it is

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-08 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/08/2012 09:14 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: On 08/08/2012 02:44 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: [...] # Needs to be Modified to support Fedora .zx tar archive and /lib symbolic link. Working on a patch. Here is a patch that fixes both the xz and

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-08 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/08/2012 09:14 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: On 08/08/2012 02:44 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: [...] # Needs to be Modified to support Fedora .zx tar archive and /lib symbolic link. Working on a patch. Here is a patch that fixes both the xz and

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Sullivan
On 08/08/2012 09:57 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: On 08/08/2012 09:14 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: On 08/08/2012 02:44 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: [...] # Needs to be Modified to support Fedora .zx tar archive and /lib symbolic link. Working on a

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-07 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/07/2012 12:02 AM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a good start. We could probably just use the resize script in our image to expand partition and resize ext on firstboot? We might also consider making a wiki page

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-07 Thread Scott Sullivan
On 08/06/2012 11:59 PM, Jon wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: On 08/03/2012 06:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: [...] Ok - I have Fedora 17 running on the Mele. It is quite a hack, but it is usable (yum merrily installing the dev tools as we

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-07 Thread Jon
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Scott Sullivan sc...@ss.org wrote: On 08/06/2012 11:59 PM, Jon wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: On 08/03/2012 06:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: [...] Ok - I have Fedora 17 running on the Mele. It is quite

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-07 Thread Scott Sullivan
On 08/07/2012 02:43 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: On 08/07/2012 12:36 PM, Jon wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Scott Sullivan sc...@ss.org wrote: On 08/06/2012 11:59 PM, Jon wrote: We might also consider making a wiki page for this device, ensure to mention this is unsupported. Where do

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-07 Thread Jon
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote: One big issue is that the built-in eth0 is not functional. That is true of the ubuntu build as well. To get around that, I plugged in a USB/ethernet adapter (and

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: I've picked up a Mele A1000 set top, Is the A2000 related to the A1000? anyone tried it? (I´m asking because I can´t find the A1000 in amazon.com but the A2000 is available...) TIA FC PS: Apologies Steven if you get

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK the a2000 has more memory. A good wiki page for the AllWinner is on xmbc website [1] http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Allwinner_A10#Mele_A1000.2FA2000 Great pointer Jon. Thanks a bunch. FC

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-06 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/03/2012 06:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: I've picked up a Mele A1000 set top, which uses the Allwinner A10 CPU. I don't see a Fedora port for this one yet, so I might take a shot at it. But first I wanted to ask

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-06 Thread Jon
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: On 08/03/2012 06:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: I've picked up a Mele A1000 set top, which uses the Allwinner A10 CPU. I don't see a Fedora

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-06 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a good start. We could probably just use the resize script in our image to expand partition and resize ext on firstboot? We might also consider making a wiki page for this device, ensure to mention this is

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-04 Thread Steven A. Falco
On 08/03/2012 09:37 AM, Jon wrote: Have tried to get the kernel to build, and I remember these sites were helpful. https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/Building_Debian_From_Source_Code_for_Mele/ Make sure that cgroups are

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-04 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: On 08/03/2012 09:37 AM, Jon wrote: Have tried to get the kernel to build, and I remember these sites were helpful. https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: I've picked up a Mele A1000 set top, which uses the Allwinner A10 CPU. I don't see a Fedora port for this one yet, so I might take a shot at it. But first I wanted to ask if anyone else has already started this? The

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-03 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Steven A. Falco safa...@optonline.net wrote: I've picked up a Mele A1000 set top, which uses the Allwinner A10 CPU. I don't see a Fedora port for this one yet, so I might take a shot at

Re: [fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-03 Thread Jon
Have tried to get the kernel to build, and I remember these sites were helpful. https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/Building_Debian_From_Source_Code_for_Mele/ Make sure that cgroups are enabled in your kernel. Once you have the

[fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

2012-08-02 Thread Steven A. Falco
I've picked up a Mele A1000 set top, which uses the Allwinner A10 CPU. I don't see a Fedora port for this one yet, so I might take a shot at it. But first I wanted to ask if anyone else has already started this? The CPU is a Cortex A8, and there is an Ubuntu port, as well as its native Android