BeagleBoardFedora

Random hacking notes for getting Fedora 10 to kinda work with the BeagleBoard. ;)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM

and use one of my CC* images.. http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/kernel/

Patches: http://rcn-ee.homeip.net:83/fedora-patches/

= Fix things = Note: before you boot, patch isn't installed by default..

yum
--- ../fedora-10-orig/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py	2008-10-29 09:30:20.000000000 -0500 +++ ./usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py	2009-02-21 11:45:09.000000000 -0600 @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@     "alpha":      "noarch", # arm -   "armv61": "armv5tejl", +   "armv7l": "armv6l", +   "armv6l": "armv5tejl", "armv5tejl": "armv5tel", "armv5tel": "noarch",

rpm
--- ../fedora-10-orig/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc	2009-01-05 13:40:36.000000000 -0600 +++ ./usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc	2009-03-06 15:26:39.000000000 -0600 @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ optflags: armv5tel -O2 -g -march=armv5te optflags: armv5tejl -O2 -g -march=armv5te optflags: armv6l -O2 -g -march=armv6 +optflags: armv7l -O2 -g -march=armv7-a optflags: atarist -O2 -g -fomit-frame-pointer optflags: atariste -O2 -g -fomit-frame-pointer @@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ arch_canon:     armv5tel: armv5tel 	12 arch_canon:    armv5tejl: armv5tejl 	12 arch_canon:    armv6l: armv6l 	12 +arch_canon:    armv7l: armv7l 	12 arch_canon:	m68kmint: m68kmint	13 arch_canon:	atarist: m68kmint	13 @@ -245,6 +247,7 @@ buildarchtranslate: armv5tel: armv5tel buildarchtranslate: armv5tejl: armv5tejl buildarchtranslate: armv6l: armv6l +buildarchtranslate: armv7l: armv7l buildarchtranslate: atarist: m68kmint buildarchtranslate: atariste: m68kmint @@ -326,6 +329,7 @@ arch_compat: parisc: noarch arch_compat: armv4b: noarch +arch_compat: armv7l: armv6l arch_compat: armv6l: armv5tejl arch_compat: armv5tejl: armv5tel arch_compat: armv5tel: armv4tl @@ -429,6 +433,7 @@ buildarch_compat: mipsel: noarch buildarch_compat: armv4b: noarch +buildarch_compat: armv7l: armv6l buildarch_compat: armv6l: armv5tejl buildarch_compat: armv5tejl: armv5tel buildarch_compat: armv5tel: armv4tl

= Tools, You may want on your partition before you boot =

dhclient = http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Everything/arm/os/Packages/dhclient-4.0.0-30.fc10.armv5tel.rpm wget = http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Everything/arm/os/Packages/wget-1.11.4-1.fc10.armv5tel.rpm nano = http://rcn-ee.homeip.net:81/dl/fedora/fc10.0/RPMS/armv7l/nano-2.0.6-4.fc10.armv7l.rpm

= Building packages =

in most cases build your packages for armv5... (not everything works when built as armv7l) rpmbuild -ba --target armv5tel dejagnu.spec

= armv7l =

Note; this is just my first pass at rebuilding all rpm's, so things are bound to break, and they will. So only dive in head first if you don't mind.

Add to fedora.repo

[fedora-armv7l] name=Fedora armv7l baseurl=http://rcn-ee.homeip.net:81/dl/fedora/fc10.0/RPMS/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0

gpgkey: http://rcn-ee.homeip.net:81/dl/fedora/fc10.0/RPM-GPG-KEY-rcn-ee.com