On 07/02/16 21:43, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic wrote:
Hi,
On 07.01.2016 16:00, coadde wrote:
happy hacking!
Any progress on the GRUB porting in the past month? Which is the code
repository and how can people help coadde with the development?
Is anyone else working on having full ARM v7 support in Parabola?
Is there a documentation page for installing Parabola on an ARM v7 board
such as the BBB? Is it Arch (still) needed for the installation?
Thanks,
I installed on a A10-olinuxino-lime successfully, but I used an
arch-linux img to start with and migrated according to the wiki.
I only hit two problems along the way, and considering how recent the
port is, it was really rather pain free.
The first problem I had was the link to the parabola-mirrorlist or
parabola-keyring (I forget which) wasn't recent enough. It looks as if
this has now been fixed on the wiki.
The second problem was upon installing the more recent mirror-list or
parabola-keyring, or by some other way, the architecture got set back to
auto in pacman.conf. I checked the arch linux armv7h img, and in the
image, it is set to armv7h, so it must have got switched somehow. I
asked on IRC and got help by a friendly dev (can't remember whom) and
they guided me through the troubleshooting process, they also updated
the wiki to give the solution to this second problem. Most helpful.
I couldn't say if arch arm was needed, the reason why I didn't generate
my own image to start off with, is because the only laptop I have access
to here at the moment is running Trisquel, and AFAIK a parabola computer
is required to create the images.
I'm not a listed parabola developer but I might be able to access an x86
parabola machine soon, and I have a second a10-olinuxino-lime, so
perhaps I could run the image generation tests (as per the wiki) with that?
I am half surprised how well things went actually, considering none of
yous lot own the same device. uboot*-linux-libre worked as expected. And
the kernel even had the tinylcd drivers I wanted to run a hdmi screen
with (they're not yet in the sunxi kernel).
All in all I am very pleased with what's been done so far.
Thanks for all your hard work and efforts, it's much appreciated,
Josh
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