[Mageia-discuss] Mageia ARM port to VIA APC ( or other arm-based board?)

John Bowden led43john at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 3 01:45:07 CET 2013


On Saturday 02 Mar 2013 15:03:10 shelandy wrote:
> I got a board (APC Rock)from VIA, which has minimal support of Android 4
> and a little bit faster than Raspbeery Pi.
> Mike Thompson has ported Debian to this board
> http://www.raspbian.org/ApricotImages
> VIA released the minimal linux information on
> https://github.com/apc-io/apc-8750
> https://github.com/apc-io/apc-8950 (the kernel for new models like Rock
> or Paper)
> 
> I'd like to used Mageia to this little board.  I have heard of that some
> one in Mageia community would announce their progress of porting Maegia
> to arm-based system in FOSDEM 2013, but so far have never seen the
> details.  I was wondering if some one know the details?
> 
> If someone can show me how to do the cross-compilation...., I might be
> able to help the process of port Mageia to the ARM-based box.
> 
> Any suggestion of how should I proceed the porting?
> 
> Shelandy
> 
> 於 西元2013年03月01日 08:30, Kristoffer Grundström 提到:
> > 2013-02-28 01:34, Olivier Blin skrev:
> >> Kristoffer Grundström <kristoffer.grundstrom1983 at gmail.com> writes:
> >>> Then, on a workstation (any architecture), insert the µSD card, and
> >>> 
> >>> as root, type:
> >>>   debootstrap --arch=armel --variant=minbase --foreign mageia
> >>> 
> >>> /media/PHONE\ CARD/mageia http://http.mageia.org/mageia
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> That won't work to install mageia.
> >> Did you really test your own guide?
> > 
> > Nope.
> > I know to little to do this.
> > That's why I want testers & people who knows what's wrong with the
> > guide when it comes to using commands.
> > 
> > /Kristoffer

Hi Shelandy.
This is the url for one of the arm branches:
http://stewbenedict.org/mageia-arm-pogo.html
Hope it helps
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