Architectures/ARM/F13-ARM-Beta1

Beta 1 is Obsolete!
Beta 2 is out.

Release Notes

This release supports the ARM v5 architecture, little-endian, gnueabi, with thumb interworking (armv5tel). It will work on higher architecture versions but is not fully optimized for them. Popular supported devices include:
- SheevaPlug, GuruPlug, and other Marvell Kirkwood-based plug computers (including the OpenRD development systems) (armv5)
- BeagleBoard and PandaBoard systems (armv7)
- OLPC XO 1.75 (armv7)
This release does not support armv4 and lower architecture versions. This means that it does not work on device including:
- OpenMoko/Freerunner phones

The Fedora ARM project does not currently provide a kernel. You will need to provide a kernel suitable for your device (either the one provided with the device, or one compiled for your device). Here are kernels suitable for some common ARM development devices:
- GuruPlug
- BeagleBoard

A comparision of the packages included in this beta release with the versions included in the primary 32-bit architecture (i686)
Notable package sets not included or incomplete in the beta include OpenOffice.org, gstreamer, and KDE.
Some languages (Ocaml, Haskell) do not yet suport ARM (in the versions used in F13). Therefore, any packages written in these languages are not yet available.
Work is continuing on the remaining packages.

The beta release is a tarball of a minimal root filesystem. When coupled with a suitable kernel, it provides sufficient tools for login, network setup (wired or wireless), and software installation/removal via yum.
Instructions for setting up Fedora ARM on a device
The default root password is: fedoraarm

On PanadaBoards, no login prompt appears on the serial console. As a temporary workaround, uncomment the lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

On Samsung SMDKv310, the tty port is ttySAC1. This device port is currently not created. A temporary (and very ugly) workaround would be to add the following lines to a rc script (like at the end of rc.sysinit):

  echo Creating Serial device /dev/ttySAC1
  mknod /dev/ttySAC1 c 204 65
  chmod 660 /dev/ttySAC1
  chown root:dialout /dev/ttySAC1