Fedora ARM Meeting 2012 May 02

Summer 2012 Startup

Standing Responsibilities

1. • Operating the build farm
   • Producing and maintaining the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix <-----------

Standard Practices

1. • Team meetings - Wednesday 10 am
   • Fedora ARM call/chat - Wednesday afternoon, 4 pm
   • Blogging, minimum 1x/week

Initial Projects

1. • Armada XP boards - add to build farm
     • Oscar and Felix
     • 1.4GHz Quad Core, SATA
   • Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix 17 <-----------
     • Graphics and Display?
     • Make is awesome!
   • Presentation - 10 AM Thursday (which week?)
     • Talk / Short Demo Pi/AXP
     • Let's do this tomorrow (May 2)
     • Room: T1009 or S1206 (ctyler)
     • Presentation co-ordination (fossjon)

Hardware and Supply

1. • Ethernet cables
   • Possible fulltime HDMI cable to T1009?
   • Email Dawn and Chris

Upcoming Dates

1. • May 8 - IDI setup and IRCC announcement
   • OCE Discovery - May 14/15 - Chris, Max, Andrew
     • Make 2D Graphics better for the RasPi
     • Possible Solar Panel Demo of the Pi
     • Swags and Banners for the event? From CDOT or OCE will provide?
   • Economic Club - May 22 - Chris
   • DEEP/IDI Announcement - May 23/24/25 - Chris (+)
   • Linaro Connect - May 26-June 2 - Chris

Raspberry Pi

• Fedora Remix 14 (ctyler)
  1. Update kernel
  2. Update initscripts
  3. Update firmware (?)
  4. Push to repo
  5. Push new image
• Fedora Remix 17
  1. Kernel (frojoe, ctyler)
     • Need to get kernel with newest Raspi patches built and tested
     • Raspi kernel is 3.1.9 kernel, Fedora is on 3.3.3 (?) - Work with Dom & Foundaton (+jonmasters?) to get kernel patches upstreamed
  2. New firstboot - Using Fedora firstboot code
     • Get firstboot changes upstream (frojoe)
  3. Packages for Scratch, Waterbear, KidsRuby
     • Package status:
       1. Scratch - Packaged, supposedly working, have not tested - Has license issues, need negotiation (maxam)
       2. Waterbear - Packaged, reasonably good shape, needs testing/adjustment for Fedora Packaging Guidelines (agreene)
       3. KidsRuby - Also includes RubyWarrior - Packaged, needs testing/adjustment for FPG, needs one more dep packaged (fossjon)
     • Get into override repo to start
     • Push into Fedora
  4. Get dracut working (ctyler)
     • Requires updated firmware
     • Get Plymouth working - without KMS
  5. Image compose (frojoe)
     • Script from SBR600
     • Need package list

Goals

• • F14 Remix - Updates by EOW
  • F17
    1. Beta by next EOW - May 11
    2. Release concurrent with F17-ARM (May 24/EOM)
• Brendan's Nightlies
  • Test, provide feedback to Brendan (frojoe, ctyler)