The Fedora Fifteen Franken ARM hardfp build 1 for XO 1.75

[Niels de Vos]

On 01/03/2012 01:03 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> The "This sonic transducer, it is I suppose some kind of
> audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?" release.
>
> THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE AIMED AT CORE OS/HW DEVELOPERS
>
> This is a hard floating point Franken release for development and
> testing of the hardfp on the XO 1.75. Its very incomplete and has a
> number of things that don't work. This is expected and its a release
> only really intended for people that understandard what hardfp is and
> the significance of it and wish to test and develop further for this
> fairly major feature both for upstream Fedora and the XO releases.
>
> This isn't a release that shouldn't have bug reports against it.
>
> So what are the known issues, and what works?
>
> - X works using fbdev. There's an issue with resolution. Fix this by
> removing the "Virtual" line from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xo1.75.conf
> - No accelerated X
> - Sugar and GNOME do work quite well
> - Networking seems to work OK
> - Firefox DOESN'T work. Known issue, hopefully should be fixed before long
> - Midori for GNOME, Surf for Sugar included as browsers.

systemd is included (as it is Fedora 15) but does not really work by 
default. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704783 describes 
the same problem and points to a solution:
- remove /var/run, /var/lock and /media from /etc/rwtab and reboot

The change was made on a date after the version of initscripts that is 
installed was created. There are no Fedora ARM updates yet, but maybe a 
new version fixes it automatically.

> I've been working to get this to a reasonable testing state for a
> while and finally all the bits fell into place. There's quite a bit of
> change going on in the ARM Fedora 15 world. I would suggest regular
> "yum update" to get the latest builds. I'm not expecting to do regular
> builds of this, but will happily cut more builds if people think a new
> one would be useful.

Unfortunately the fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo are non-functional 
for Fedora 15 on ARM. Instead, I am now using the most current builds 
directly from a repository on the koji infrastructure:
- http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/repos/dist-f15-build/latest/armhfp/

Does it make sense to create tickets for these kind of issues? Or is 
this email sufficient to help others?

Thanks for the release,
Niels


> Download from:
> http://build.laptop.org/F15-arm/os1/
>
> For those interested in hardfp stuff.... enjoy :-)
>
> Peter
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