Fedora ARM Meeting 2012 May 02

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Summer 2012 Startup

Standing Responsibilities

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

Standard Practices

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

Initial Projects

    • 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

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

Upcoming Dates

    • 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)