[ARMedslack] Generic Allwinner Slackware installer, was: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)

[Davide]

>> > I noticed RPi patches also not making it into kernel.org. Last weekend

>> > I tried to compile a generic 3.10.1 kernel for the RPi and it failed
>> > to boot. Rather than patch kernel source for a specific ARM target,
>> > are we expected to use the generic kernel and build a device tree
>> > binary?

>That's the idea, yes except that you wouldn't have to build the device
>tree blob since if support is compiled into the kernel for that device,
>then the DTB would already have been built and  be provided with the
>kernel package.  The DTBs are generated by kernel.SlackBuild for the
>specific architectures, so once additional support is added, the
>architecture name will need to be appended to the list for the specific
>kernel.

>I tried to build an armv6 and armv7 generic kernel, but since the base
>line is set to armv6, when armv7 code begins to build, it fails since the
>ARMv6 CPUs cannot execute v7 instructions.  I don't understand why you can
>select both CPUs in this case.  You need to select ARMv7 to choose the
>hardware that has a v7 CPU.  I guess the whole thing isn't entirely
>complete yet, or perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you can do with it.
>Needless to say, I'm building a ganeric armv7 kernel now.

Not sure if what comes with fedora is built for armv7 or notbut they do have 3 kernels respectively for sin5i sun5i and sun7i. I'll checkout as soon as I get to use my XZPAD700 again and I'll have an answer for the sun5i core.

ATB
David
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