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.
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