[Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)

[luke.leighton]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Ottavio Caruso
<ottavio2006-usenet2012 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2013 7:13 PM, "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Antony Antony <antony at phenome.org> wrote:
>> > this is an interesting news item, though my prefeence is a debian.
>>
>>  no it's great thanks antony.  the more OSes the better.
>
> I'm not a full fledged developer. Does anybody give me a clue on how to port
> the architecture to Slackware-Arm? Or at least a lead. I'll then forward the
> details to Stuart Winter, who is the official maintainer.

 y'know what i'd start from?  a chroot off of debian.  slackware's
really unusual in that it basically has the rule "if it don't build
without modification, it don't go in".  so, i'd suggest he start from
debian, build the packages using native gcc (slow as it is), install
the absolute minimum possible to get away with into a chroot and test
it.  if that works, he can drop it onto a separate sd card and try
booting it, using the same kernel, u-boot and boot params that got
debian up-and-running.

 it's quite straightforward :)

l.