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Revision as of 08:34, 13 April 2010
Contents
Introduction
Fedora Secondary Architecture
Fedora supports two primary architectures:
- i386 - 32-bit Intel/AMD-compatible
- x86_64 - 64-bit Intel/AMD-compatible
There are also a number of secondary archs:
- arm - A widely-used, low-power processor family commonly used for embedded and mobile applications
- ia64 - Itanium
- pa-risc - HP Precision Architecture
- ppc - 32-bit Power PC
- ppc64 - 64-bit Power PC
- s390 - IBM mainframes (including z90 and z9)
- sparc - Sun RISC architecture
The ARM architecture is increasingly important, but there's a lot more that could be done in terms of update frequency, number of packages successfully built, transparency of process, and integration with the other Fedora build processes.
ARM Processors
ARM chips are the most popular CPU produced -- approximately 1.6 billion are being made each year. These are being sold under a number of different brand names (ARM, StrongARM, Armada, Cortex, OMAP, Sheeva, Snapdragon, XScale) by a number of different manufacturers. Most of these are going into cellphones, but hundreds of millions are being used in other devices such as routers, NAS boxes, embedded controllers, tablets, and netbooks.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computers, model XO-1.75, use an ARM processor. Since Fedora is used on the XO units, having a reliable ARM build of Fedora is increasingly important.
Plan
Initial Plan
We're going to set up a Koji build system for ARM. Initially this will be based on the CDOT system HongKong. Initial ARM builders will use QEMU emulation, which will be replaced by ARM Hardware when it arrives.
Status
Notes on Koji status at 2010-04-10 15:50:
- hub is UP!
- kojira user added
- builder on arm-001-008 is UP! -- see: koji list-hosts
- arm target has been added: koji list-targets
- test tag has been added: koji list-tags
- next: need to set up kojira and bootstrap the build process. Also need to set up koji-web.
Current Tasks
| Task | Person | Status | Wiki Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koji Hub setup - PostgreSQL master | Arlene Daniel | In Progress - Goal of March 22 | Koji Database |
| Koji Hub setup - Koji Hub configuration | Paul Whalen,Sadiki Latty | Koji Hub | |
| Koji Hub setup - Certificates/security | Sadiki Latty | Koji Certificates | |
| Koji Builder setup - Shared filesystem | Mashfique Haque | Koji shared filesystem | |
| Koji Builder setup - Koji Build Daemon | David Cabral | 99% | Koji Builders |
| Performance - iSCSI vs. NFS vs. Local USB disk | David Chisholm | Completed | Storage Performance |
| Initial mock tests on ARM | Everyone | 80% | Initial Mock Compilation Tests |
| Research and create image for F12 on OpenRD-Client | Paul Whalen | Completed | F12 on OpenRD-Client |
| NFS setup - HongKong to VMs | David Chisholm | Completed | NFS Configuration |
| Networking with NAT to connect OpenRD | Sadiki Latty | Completed | NAT |
| Revise mock config and .repo files in release RPM | David Cabral | 53% | Repos |
| Build kernels natively and from SRPM | Chris Tyler | In progress | Kernels |
| Build iSCSI-capable kernel for testing | Chris Tyler | 100% | iSCSI |
| Set up F12 on OpenRD-Client | Chris Tyler | 100% | OpenRD-Client |
| Set up F12 on SheevaPlug | Alex Pvlahopoulos | In progress | SheevaPlug
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| Posters | Mashfique Haque | In Progress | Research Poster |
Completed Tasks
- Local mirror of ARM repositories
- David Cabral
- David Chisholm
- Daniel Gilloch
- Set of standing VMs running the ARM image in emulation
- Sadiki Latty
- Paul Whalen
- Arlene Daniel
- mock configuration repository for ARM
- Chris Tyler
Resources
Wiki Pages
- Fedora Project wiki
Mailing Lists
- Fedora Mailing Lists
Sites
- Koji software project site
- Booting OpenRD from SD: http://blog.thebehrens.net/category/tinkering/
- SheevaPlug Update instructions: http://chiana.homelinux.org/~marc/eib_sheeva.html
IRC
- Secondary Arch lead - Dennis Gilmore - dgilmore on irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-devel or irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-arm
- Fedora-ARM community - irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-arm
- Koji community: irc://irc.freenode.net/koji
