Awesome stuff. A few questions for you:
1) Where is the kernel source for the 2.6.37 patched to work on the AC100? Is this based on the Toshiba's 2.6.32.9 kernel (Android 2.2)? I know there were problems with porting the 2.6.29 changes from Android 2.1 to later kernels (important things like working nvec keyboard support). If that is the case, does that mean that Toshiba's 2.6.32.9 patches correctly all the way up to the 2.6.37?
2) Does this include the console pallete fixes (colours in text mode were out with the old kernel)?
3) Do the accelerated nvidia drivers work? Do they support a kernel as recent as 2.6.37?
4) Power management - does it work now?
5) I notice you also mention the Genesi Smartbook. Do you have video acceleration working on it? Last time I checked, even Genesi's default Ubuntu image didn't have properly working video acceleration. Don't get me wrong, the latest update I've seen is a vast improvement on what was there before (now Xv is actually showing up as supported at least), but it still didn't work for me for DVD image playback, let alone anything in higher definition. Have you managed to get this working on Fedora?
Thanks for your efforts, I really appreciate them - as an owner of both an AC100 and a Genesi Smartbook. :)
Gordan
intersolar-direct wrote:
About Fedora on Toshiba AC100. We have launch new kernel 2.6.37 w. Fedora ARM13 http://translate.google.ru/translate?hl=ru&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%... http://translate.google.ru/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=en&tl=ru&u=http%3A%2F%2F4pda.ru%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Fshowtopic%3D230018%26st%3D320&act=url
This guide for install Ubuntu on Toshiba AC100 2.6.37 http://pole.su/Toshiba-AC100-Ubuntu-2.6.37-install-ENG.htm if we change one string, we install Fedora onToshiba AC100 well: This string: wget http://ac100.gudinna.com/tegra-rootfs.tgz tar xvf tegra-rootfs.tgz --numeric-owner -C /mnt/mmc tar xvf tegra-rootfs.tgz - numeric-owner-C / mnt / mmc need change to: wget http://ausil.us/smartbook/smartbook-rootfs-f13.tar.bz2 tar xvf smartbook-rootfs-f13.tar.bz2 --numeric-owner -C /mnt/mmc tar xvf smartbook-rootfs-f13.tar.bz2 - numeric-owner-C / mnt / mmc
We use Fedora rootfs from Genesi Smartbook.
Good luck
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On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 04:55:08 AM Gordan Bobic wrote:
- I notice you also mention the Genesi Smartbook. Do you have video
acceleration working on it? Last time I checked, even Genesi's default Ubuntu image didn't have properly working video acceleration. Don't get me wrong, the latest update I've seen is a vast improvement on what was there before (now Xv is actually showing up as supported at least), but it still didn't work for me for DVD image playback, let alone anything in higher definition. Have you managed to get this working on Fedora?
its just using fbdev. no acceleration at all. you should be able to set it up by getting the binary bits and building the imx xorg driver.
Ive been meaning to blog about the filesystem.
http://ausil.us/smartbook/boot.tar.bz2 is contents for a ext3 /boot http://ausil.us/smartbook/smartbook-rootfs-f13.tar.bz2 is the contents for a ext4 /
its configured to boot from a sdcard. you can install it to the internal storage pretty easily. you will need to update the boot.scr file. and fstab to point to internal storage. it enables the default /dev/sda3 swap on the smartbook.
the kernel is built from genesi's tree on gitorious.org git://gitorious.org/efikamx/linux-kernel.git
you will need to update the repos that it points at. i need to get with Paul and sync the content to secondary.fedoraproject.org so that it can be mirrored and the mirrorlists will just work
Dennis
Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 04:55:08 AM Gordan Bobic wrote:
- I notice you also mention the Genesi Smartbook. Do you have video
acceleration working on it? Last time I checked, even Genesi's default Ubuntu image didn't have properly working video acceleration. Don't get me wrong, the latest update I've seen is a vast improvement on what was there before (now Xv is actually showing up as supported at least), but it still didn't work for me for DVD image playback, let alone anything in higher definition. Have you managed to get this working on Fedora?
its just using fbdev. no acceleration at all. you should be able to set it up by getting the binary bits and building the imx xorg driver.
Yes, that's what I thought, too. And the latest software release still runs on fbdev. But xvinfo will report that xv acceleration is in fact available despite the Xorg log saying it's running on fbdev.
Perhaps someone clan clarify?
Can you provide a link for where the imx xorg drivers can be acquired? I would have expected them to ship with the laptop if they were stable enough.
Ive been meaning to blog about the filesystem.
http://ausil.us/smartbook/boot.tar.bz2 is contents for a ext3 /boot http://ausil.us/smartbook/smartbook-rootfs-f13.tar.bz2 is the contents for a ext4 /
its configured to boot from a sdcard. you can install it to the internal storage pretty easily. you will need to update the boot.scr file. and fstab to point to internal storage. it enables the default /dev/sda3 swap on the smartbook.
Indeed, I'm aware of all that. The main downside of putting Fedora on it is that a number of pretty important things are still missing (Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Open/Libre Office - at least the latter two are available for ARM Ubuntu).
the kernel is built from genesi's tree on gitorious.org git://gitorious.org/efikamx/linux-kernel.git
Interesting. Is there a list of specific patches that are required to be applied to the vanilla kernel to make it work on the Efika?
Gordan
Indeed, I'm aware of all that. The main downside of putting Fedora on it is that a number of pretty important things are still missing (Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Open/Libre Office - at least the latter two are available for ARM Ubuntu).
Chromium would be possible (at least technically, whether it compiles or not is another matter), more likely for F-14 or later but won't be in the official Fedora, but then this is no different for x86 Fedora. OpenOffice/LibreOffice is likely similar, except its already in Fedora mainline so it should just be a matter of compiling it.
Peter
Peter Robinson wrote:
Indeed, I'm aware of all that. The main downside of putting Fedora on it is that a number of pretty important things are still missing (Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Open/Libre Office - at least the latter two are available for ARM Ubuntu).
Chromium would be possible (at least technically, whether it compiles or not is another matter), more likely for F-14 or later but won't be in the official Fedora, but then this is no different for x86 Fedora.
No, but the point remains that there is an Ubuntu Chromium package and there isn't a Fedora one (nor is there a spec file to build it). The memory footprint of Firefox makes it unsuitable for machines with only 448-512MB of RAM, such as most ARM machines. Not to mention that the FF in F13 doesn't actually work properly on ARM, even with alignment fixups: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636751
OpenOffice/LibreOffice is likely similar, except its already in Fedora mainline so it should just be a matter of compiling it.
Having spent many a day trying to get the src.rpm to build, I can assure it is _not_ a simple matter of "rpmbuild --rebuild libreoffice.src.rpm". The build process as guided by the patches and spec file makes some unsound assumptions, including those about Java's availability and state of functioning. I gave up after a while since the build process took about 3 days to get to the point where it fails on my SheevaPlug.
I might give it another go if/when I have the time to get distcc and/or koji working across multiple machines (SheevaPlug, AC100, Efika Smartbook) - cutting the build time down to a quarter might just make it workable for some kind of a meaningful development effort.
Gordan
On 2011-04-27 11:19, Gordan Bobic wrote:
No, but the point remains that there is an Ubuntu Chromium package and there isn't a Fedora one (nor is there a spec file to build it).
Take a look at Tom 'spot' Callaway's page for Fedora Chromium: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium
There's a link to a yum repo, source rpms, and more on the above page.
Jeff
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:14:26 PM Jeffrey Bastian wrote:
On 2011-04-27 11:19, Gordan Bobic wrote:
No, but the point remains that there is an Ubuntu Chromium package and there isn't a Fedora one (nor is there a spec file to build it).
Take a look at Tom 'spot' Callaway's page for Fedora Chromium: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium
There's a link to a yum repo, source rpms, and more on the above page.
I have built v8 but the chromium doesnt build. from what ive seen 10.x.x.x series somewhere was the last that built ok on arm.
Dennis
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