Architectures/ARM/Fedora15 HardFP Bootstrap Virtual FAD 20110610

[ARM] Fedora15 HardFP Bootstrap Virtual FAD - 2011/06/10

We wish to accelerate the bringup of Fedora 15 on ARMv7 systems running with hardware floating point (hardfp). To that end, it is proposed to have semi-regular bootstrap days, during which we will meet in a virtual capacity (on IRC, and over the phone) to build up through cross-compilation (and other means) the core packages required for Fedora 15 to become self-hosting on ARMv7 with hardware floating point.

When and Where

14:00 UTC, Friday June 10th 2011

IRC: #fedora-arm on irc.freenode.net

Phone: Access code: 1236987415

Toll Free Dial-In Number (US & Canada): (800) 451-8679

Etherpad: http://www.tinyurl.com/fedora-arm (including full list of international dialin numbers)

Event owners

Jon Masters Chris Tyler

Attendees

• Jon Masters

Program

• Summarize requirements/sync up on build flags
  • Build for Cortex A-8, with AAPCS, and hard float (vfpv3-d16, not -d32)
  • Do not enable NEON (can add later)
  • Do not enable Thumb2 (confirmed can non-disruptively enable per-package later)
• Current status of works in progress (DJ/Dennis/Seneca(?)?)
  • Plan will be to use DJ's bootstrap.git as a starting point
  • Extend stage2 script to on-target build up dependencies for rpm-build
  • Stash archives of populated build directories/bits on scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/f15hardfp/bootstrap/
• Minimal dependency discussion for F15
  • Plan to build dependencies required from the dependency graph
  • F15 x86_64 rpm-build dependency graph generated from Koji build dependencies
• Plan for building/co-ordinating builds
  • Follow instructions for setting up DJ's bootstrap script and minimal rootfs (target chroot)
  • Grab a few package dependencies and work on them (add support to stage2 script)
  • Tar up the resulting build tree and make them available to others
  • Others install build tree ("make install") on their rootfs
  • Once sufficient deps are done for rpm, rebuild things as RPMs
  • host bits on scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/f15hardfp/bootstrap/
  • Stage a Koji F15 instance with the working RPMs
• Status before end of day
• Plan for followup

Requirements

• Internet connection to log into IRC, and phone if possible (phone not essential)
• A supported ARMv7 target board
• Lots of coffee