Re: [MirageOS-devel] Building ARM images

[Jon Ludlam <jjl25@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 04:47:41PM +0000, Richard Mortier wrote:
> All;
> 
> Following the demise of the Cubieboard2 and Cubietruck images hosted at
> blobs.openmirage.org, and Ian Campbell's sterling work to get Alpine images
> started at the hackathon, I've finally taken some time to try and reinvigorate
> `mirage/xen-arm-builder`.
> 
> Travis finally went green, so I've just merged the results -- it would be 
> great
> if someone were able to give them a try! 
>

I had a go - a couple of minor issues for which I've sent a pull request, but
otherwise it worked very well. My previous installation was before the 
framebuffer
support went in, so my monitor that's been redundant for a long time is now on
again, huzzah!

Jon

> The instructions in the README.md at 
> https://github.com/mirage/xen-arm-builder/
> are meant to be reasonably complete, to get to the stage of having an SD card
> image built that will boot either a Cubieboard2 or Cubietruck into Alpine, 
> with
> scripts provided in the image that will then install Xen with Alpine as the
> dom0 and build either Debian or Alpine domU images. 
> 
> If someone who owns blobs.openmirage.org (avsm?) would like I can provide some
> new images to host there to replace the old, defunct ones.
> 
> I hope to spend some more time in the coming weeks automating installation
> further -- at the moment, the SD card image is created automatically, but
> manual intervention is still required to configure first boot and to run the
> generated install scripts.
> 
> In the meantime, PRs, issues, comments welcome!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Richard Mortier
> richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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