Tempel
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I've put together an up-to-date rootfs of Arch. It's nothing you haven't seen before, but given how I struggled to get a proper Arch install, I thought others might find this useful. The heavy lifting was done by Cloudef, who built the Pandora-specific packages used here. His PKGBUILDs are on Github, and his binary repository is already included in the pacman configuration of this rootfs.
I tried to keep this as minimal as possible so you can build it up however you like. The only user is root, with no password required to log in. Included packages are only what's needed to run the hardware (though some might be unnecessary - let me know). The only services enabled are also hardware-related. Installed top-level packages:
Known issues:
I tried to keep this as minimal as possible so you can build it up however you like. The only user is root, with no password required to log in. Included packages are only what's needed to run the hardware (though some might be unnecessary - let me know). The only services enabled are also hardware-related. Installed top-level packages:
- base (the group, excluding kernels for all the other devices Arch ARM supports)
- wpa_supplicant
- wireless_tools
- xf86-input-joystick
- xf86-input-keyboard
- xf86-input-mouse
- xf86-input-synaptics
- xf86-input-void
- xf86-video-fbdev
- xf86-video-modesetting
- xorg-xinit
- xorg-server
- xorg-server-utilsPandora-specific, from Cloudef:
- linux-pandora
- pndevmapperd
- powervr-sgx-5x
- ti-wl1251-firmware
- xf86-video-omapfb-pandora
- xorg-conf-pandora
Known issues:
- Not all keys register properly in a virtual console. So far, I've noticed : and _ fail, though everything works in X. If you use Vi, that can be trouble, but know that you can save and exit with ZZ.
- SGX works only in framebuffer, not X, so you don't get full acceleration.
- Any software compiled for Zaxxon is unlikely to work, as Zaxxon uses software floating point (softfp), while Arch uses hardfp.
- Therefore, no support for PNDs, obviously. libpnd and friends could be built for Arch, but very few existing PNDs would run.
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