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Revision as of 23:43, 8 February 2012
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Generate an RPM-based Raspberry Pi Kernel
Project Description
The Fedora project has a standard RPM kernel package. The Fedora ARM project has extended this package to build separate kernels for various ARM system-on-a-chip (SOC) platforms, generating binary RPM packages for kernel-omap, kernel-tegra, kernel-kirkwood, and so forth. This package should be extended to generate a kernel package for the Broadcom SOC used in the Raspberry Pi (either kernel-raspi or kernel-bcm).
In order to create a standard RPM package file, Dracut (initramfs) will need to be properly supported.
Expected outcome: the Fedora kernel package generates a Raspberry Pi kernel binary RPM.
Skills required: packaging, kernel building
Maximum number of participants: 2 (kernel package, initramfs/dracut setup)
Project Leader(s)
Project Contributor(s)
Project Details
Project Plan
Tracking mechanism (bugzilla, trac, github, ...):
Key contacts:
- The CDOT Fedora-ARM team: Jordan, Jon, Max, Paul
- Dennis Gilmore
- Dave Jones
Goals for each release and plans for reaching those goals:
- 0.1 Proof of concept : Get to know the kernel build process, learn how the Raspberry Pi kernel builds, study how the spec file in the kernel RPM works.
- 0.2 Initial implementation : Get the Raspberry Pi packages into the SRPM, modify the spec file to produce a binary RPM for Raspberry Pi, ensure the post-installation script (%post) in the binary RPM calls grubby properly for the Raspberry Pi.
- 0.3 Better implementation : Specify the kernel build's configuration file (.config) for what should be included or excluded in terms of device drivers and kernel features.
Communication
Mailing Lists
- arm
- announce
- devel
- secondary
Upsteam Wiki and Web
Links/Bugs/Tracking
Building a custom kernel: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
Dracut: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut
Source Code Control
github (Raspberry Pi): https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux
Blogs
http://asalwi123.wordpress.com/
