Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora ARM and Devices

Peter Robinson wrote: Our current thinking is that we want to just to proper cross-building of packages without the need for emulation. Many people have done this successfully, and the trick is to bring those things together into something that is acceptable to and pushed upstream (whenever possible) and get it integrated into the fedora build toolchain (rpmbuild, mock, koji, yum, pilgrim, revisor, etc.) Having said that, that should not prevent anyone from using scratchbox, and building a build-toolchain around that. I dont believe scratchbox today supports building rpms, but I am sure it can be extended to do that. And, then you have to figure out how to integrate it into the rest of the fedora build toolchain. The base ARM architecture support that we have built is for ARMv5. So, if any of the machines has an older ARM architecture, then it wont work. It appears that this is SA-1110, which probably wont work with the pre-built packages we have. Part of the issue here is that ARM changed their ABI, and we wanted to get started on a clean base and only support the new ARM EABI. That should not prevent someone from building for the older CPU's, but I think that may be a substantial effort. Perhaps, if one of your devices is ARMv5 architecture, then we can use that as a base. Or, maybe this would be an excuse to get a new one which has a CPU based on armv5 (or later). I have a howto in works to boot it on qemu. We definitely want to add more howto's and cover the common use-cases for different types of scenarios. Regards, Manas