Comments on: openSUSE 12.2 for ARM Final!

By: Andreas Färber

Andreas Färber — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:22:00 +0000

One problem with binary blobs is that most use the softfloat ABI whereas we use hardfp (hardware floating point) for ARMv7. Another is that in many cases the versions provided by vendors are much older than ours, e.g., proprietary Nvidia Tegra2 drivers required a chroot’ed Xorg server. (In this particular case there is some upstream DRM progress by Avionic Systems though.)

By: Andreas Färber

Andreas Färber — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:57:08 +0000

We have been working on getting a Tegra3 based Toradex Colibri T30 module up, without full success so far. But it’s been a few weeks that I’ve last tried. However, most ARM devices today use their custom kernel so it’s not guaranteed that one kernel works on multiple devices. So you may need a Toradex BSP kernel for Toradex modules and an ASUS kernel for your ASUS Transformer and yet another for Lenovo devices – until everything is upstream. Oh, and accelerated graphics will require extra efforts beyond the initial bring-up.

By: Andreas Färber

Andreas Färber — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:41:47 +0000

Currently there is no image for the TrimSlice, but we have Contrib:Tegra repositories for 12.2 and Factory. Toshiba AC100 is a known working Tegra2 device (with a custom kernel), and we are working on the Toradex Colibri-T20. If we don’t have TrimSlice hardware or emulation, we can’t test and rely on you to test and tell us what’s needed!

By: Bernhard M. Wiedemann

Bernhard M. Wiedemann — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:06:32 +0000

There are already machines building for ARM (e.g. the openSUSE:Factory:ARM project is built there). Those are x86 machines with qemu-arm.

By: Allen Reeves

Allen Reeves — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:35:29 +0000

Question to any and all,
I am currently running a good ol’ Linux vers. 11.1 with a rather old version of Firefox which I have lazily not updated either for some time. I would like to know if there is a manufacturer of an ARM box with, at least, SUSE 12.2 installed or sells such a box on which I can build the latest version myself. My AMD (X86) box over clocked to 2.3 gig is in need of a freshening up, so help me out any and everyone by the next time I visit this site or email me at abreeves@maxinter.net

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:30:11 +0000

Asus Transformer TF101 port would be great since
Suse is made for multi-tasking and it seems someone forgot the we need to multi-task wether it is for business or play. If you can do it great donations would be forthcoming. Suse was great on my P3 dell laptop and the next 4 afterwards. The cool thing is sending my configuration to you and on the next day ?I would get an update that fixed the display or something.
Frustrating to not beable to fully utilize my transformer as all I like to do is turn it into a tablet then a computer.

Thankyou.

By: aaabbb144

aaabbb144 — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:20:17 +0000

great job… but i only have an prehistoric armv5 with 64mb ram and 48mb rom or sdcard slot, can i install suse arm on it?… i use The Ångström …via sdcard….an success..but this distro ( suse ) will more fun…if can run on my old machine Compaq H3975 legendary…..

By: Efstathios Iosifidis

Efstathios Iosifidis — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:03:20 +0000

For Raspberry Pi you can check the forum:

https://bit.ly/Q6uX43

It’s in Greek how to install it but you understand how to do it I guess.

Bernhard is working on it.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:42:12 +0000

Hmmm.. Might need some HTML sanity checking and escaping in your blog site… That should have read tag…

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:40:54 +0000

There is a problem with the post and the HTML. A chunk of text after “Find more details on the…” got slurped into an tag as the href incorrectly and the “wiki page” link doesn’t work as a result.

Where is the wiki page with info on how we can help support the BeagleBone in addition to the Beagleboard-xM?