[Arm-netbook] Improving the wiki, build and test processes for allwinner kernel and ubuntu images for the Mele A1000/A2000

[Enrico]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:04 PM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>> On 2 June 2012 15:36, Enrico <ebutera at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:03 PM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Craig Whitcombe
>>>>> I
>>>>> propose ubuntu because people have already had good success with that
>>>>> and the distro itself is very user friendly.
>>>>
>>>>  there has to be *more* than what there is.  i will at some point be
>>>> adding openembedded recipes and getting those submitted upstream into
>>>> their bitbake repo, then adding a wiki page on how to build e.g. the
>>>> angstrom distribution (ok, probably just the "helloworld" example
>>>> distro, it's quicker).
>>>
>>> You can just (for now) create a meta-rhombus meta-layer with bsp
>>> recipes (u-boot and kernel) and you are ready to go.
>>>
>>> I already maintain a bsp meta-layer so if needed i can help.
>>
>> the idea sounds great, but it's quite... confusing to call this
>> metalayer "rhombus". rhombus-tech is the company behind the EOMA
>> standard, not behind the A10 SoC or any existing A10-based device.
>
>  err... err... yeah, you have a point.  it'd best just be called "A10"
> metalayer or something.

I'd use meta-allwinner because it could have support for a10, a13...

Since i don't have an a1000/2000 i never looked at available kernels,
u-boot, wiki etc...from a quick look:

- kernel: refer to http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/kernel_compile/
- u-boot: refer to http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/u-boot/

Can you confirm?

Enrico