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

Sun Mar 3 01:57:51 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
+
+You might also want to do a search for arm on our wiki, it will show you how 
+far we have got with this brance, not far enough! but thats because we need 
+more volunteers.
+John (Led43_???)
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