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/

= patch fedora 10 root file system = Note: patch isn't installed, so patch these before you boot for the first time.

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
Note; this can be improved by patching rpm directly and rebuilding, however just to get things running for the moment it is fine.

--- ../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

= Recommended Tools to have Downloaded before First 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

= u-boot =

50Mb Fat32 Partition (should be the first partition, use gparted) cd /media/disk/ wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/kernel/CC-v2.6.28-79d042a-oer14 mv CC-v2.6.28-79d042a-oer14 uImage

mmc card
uboot parameters: setenv bootcmd 'mmcinit; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80300000 uImage; bootm 0x80300000' setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=2 rootfstype=ext3 ro omap-dss.def_disp=lcd omapfb.video_mode=1280x720MR-24@60' saveenv boot

external usb 2.0 drive (/dev/sda1)
uboot parameters: setenv bootcmd 'mmcinit; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80300000 uImage; bootm 0x80300000' setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=10 rootfstype=ext3 ro omap-dss.def_disp=lcd omapfb.video_mode=1280x720MR-24@60' saveenv boot

Note: Useful for saving your mmc cards

= 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, and they have. 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