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Fedora 26 Alpha for AArch64
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For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug report."
Mirror List
Supported Hardware
Overview of Hardware Support Status
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| Applied Micro X-Gene (Mustang) | |
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Tested with APM Tianocore - 3.06.25 | |||||||
| Advanced Micro Devices Opteron A1100 (Seattle) | |
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| SoftIron Overdrive 1000 (Seattle) | |
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| ARM Juno R1/R2 Development Platform | |
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Tested with custom built linaro 16.02 firmware. Boots in DT or ACPI mode. Unable to boot from SATA DVDs. (linaro 16.9 seems broken with USB devices, use 16.07 for USB DVD install) | ||
| Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies QDF2432 | |
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| Cavium ThunderX CN88XX | |
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Tested on: CRB1S, CRB2S, MT60 |
Network Installation
A network installation is the preferred installation method for current Aarch64 hardware targets. In order to begin you will need to setup the installation server, a guide can be found below:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/chap-pxe-server-setup.html
The above documentation references grubx86.efi, but this is the name for x86_64 EFI grub binaries. The grub binary name on AArch64 systems is grubaa64.efi.
The instructions above reference installing grub-efi and shim for copying into the TFTP directory. This will not work for aarch64 binaries. One option is to download the rpms from the tree below and use rpm2cpio to extract and copy the files from there.
Rawhide Installation Tree
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/development/rawhide/Server/aarch64/os/
Once configured use the Fedora 26 for AArch64 installation tree below:
F26 Installation Tree
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/26/Server/aarch64/os/
Install with QEMU
You will need to use qemu-2.3.0-4+ for the below to work.
To use Fedora 26 on QEMU you will need to use 'edk2-20160418gita8c39ba-1' (currently in updates for all releases of Fedora) or later.
sudo dnf install edk2-aarch64 libguestfs-tools-c qemu-system-aarch64
To install:
sudo virt-install \
--name Fedora_26_AArch64 --ram 4096 --arch aarch64 \
--disk size=8 --os-variant fedora22 \
--location https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/26/Everything/aarch64/os/
*Add kickstart with (root password is 'fedora'):
--extra-args "inst.ks=https://pwhalen.fedorapeople.org/kickstarts/Fedora-Minimal-AArch64.ks"
For a full list of QEMU installation options and instructions:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/Install_with_QEMU
Reported Bugs and Known Issues
- When upgrading to kernel-4.11.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc26 or later, swap will fail with the error 'swapon: /dev/sda3: swap format pagesize does not match.'. This is due to a change to 4K pagesize in Fedora for AArch64 (previously 64K). To fix this issue run the command 'swapon --fixpgsz /dev/sda3' adjusting the partition to match the running system.
- To use qemu-system-aarch64 for guests, you will need to also install qemu-system-x86(BZ#1431403).