JackOfAll wrote: > At some point I intend to "strip" it back down, but for the moment I > don't want to keep switching between the development image I'm using and > the "user" image you are using. I also want to mirror what the > "official" Fedora images have done. They've gone to a 8GB image. I kind > of disagree with the Fedora ARM release philosophy, of having a 500MB > second partition as swap. That's brain-dead, swap on a sdcard! And not > using tmpfs for "/tmp", but a lot of devices do not have the luxury of > 1GB or 2GB (with the quad) memory size, which we have with the Wand. > > But it'll become clear to you guys later why we are mirroring their > layout, when the CSOS image supports booting on Panda, Beagle, Cubie.... > not just the Wandboard. You just need to "flash" the relevant uboot to > SPI, sdcard or wherever the device boots from. > > I have had a *?@!$# of a day! Getting userspace firmware loading to > support our 3.0.35 kernel working again. (It has been stripped out in > F19). Which kind of made a farce of wanting to have a 3.0.35 kernel > option to still be able to give you guys wi-fi, which 3.11 doesn't > support for the time being, and then no wi-fi with F19 and 3.0.35 due to > the 2 binary firmware blobs not being loaded by udev. Anyway, sorting > that has now given me another problem with running the 3.11 dev kernel, > so the first "ALPHA" F19 image will do without it and 3.0.35 will remain > the default kernel. (At least, until next week! :)) > > But what I have got now is where it is going to stop for the moment. I > need to devote my time to other things, most notably the driver for the > JS carrier board. Later this evening, I'll clean-up the F19 rootfs, > which I currently have running on a hard drive, and get the sdcard image > made....... > > So bottom line Pascal, I hope you will obtain a new, larger sdcard and > not give me too much of a hard time over needing an 8GB card for the F19 > images. Alternatively, stick with the F18 based image for the moment.
Thanks for the clarification Clive. I'll get a 8 GB card, no worries. 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless 1 x Wandboard behind the bedroom ceiling ReadyNAS NVX running LMS 7.7.2. w iTunes plugin iPeng on iPod Touch. SqueezePad & iPeng on iPad. http://www.last.fm/user/phibon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pascal Hibon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
