I sent this out as part of a different thread so some people may have
missed it, so I shall repeat the post again on it's own thread.
I recently got my hands on a Gigabyte MP30-AR0, and as a side effect I
am starting a big give-away of my various arm hardware that is thereby
deprecated for my own use.
This includes:
- Toshiba AC100 (laptop)
- Genesi Efika MX Smartbook, screen upgraded to 720p (laptop)
- <s>GuruPlug</s> (last one already claimed!)
- VIA APC (ITX)
- Compulab TrimSlice
- Compulab SBC-A510 (mini-ATX)
- Cornfed Servers ConServer, 4-core, 4GB of RAM, built in PSU (mini-ATX)
- Arndale Octa
The deal is this:
1) I will post you one of these (if you are in Europe, otherwise
shipping costs will likely be prohibitive).
2) In return I would like you to:
2.1) Get as current a u-boot (or customized fork thereof if
that is all that will work) up and running on it (IIRC AC100 requires a
customized version called SOSBOOT)
2.2) Get an appropriate LT mainline kernel up and running on it (some of
the above are best supported by older LT branches, e.g. AC100 seems to
be best supported by 3.18.x LT branch kernels at the moment)
3) Most importantly, get RedSleeve up and running on it (ideally both 6
and 7)
4) Produce working RSEL image(s) for the device
5) Document the process on the RedSleeve wiki.
I can additionally offer any of the above (I have more than one of some
of them) as a bounty for anyone who can get an installer image for
RedSleeve put together, using tools like lorax (what CentOS guys use).
Anaconda has been working on ARM (including armv5tel for some time now),
so this should be possible, within the constraints of what the boot
loader can handle. It would be nice to finally move away from shipping
pre-build machine specific images and move to using an installer, even
it means having to use a machine specific installer image, or at least
manually specify the DTB to use at installer boot time.
If you are interested in doing this for any of the above, please contact
me off-list. Apart from the ConServer board, you should be able to
google the detailed spec (Cornfed Servers, sadly, went bust since I got
the board). Should you wish it, an @redsleeve.org email address is also
available if you're willing to undertake any of the above. In most cases
it shouldn't take you more than a day or two to get things researched,
compiled and tested. Most of the above devices are relatively well
supported by other, .deb based distros.
Gordan
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