Enable armhf in live-build

Registered by Tom Gall

Enable building of armhf images in the live-build tool for both native and cross assembly of images.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Ricardo Salveti
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Tom Gall
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Tom Gall
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Proposed for trunk
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 12.03
Started by
Ricardo Salveti
Completed by
Ricardo Salveti

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[rsalveti, 2012-03-01] Thanks for putting up this blueprint, just please check and sync with Fathi about the enablement at jenkins, as it'll probably be the main client from this bp.
[tom-gall, 2012-03-06] Initial live-build a45 version under test ppa:tom-gall/packages
[tom-gall, 2012-03-06] cross ubuntu-desktop unlikely, still fails, 12.02 qemu fails(sig6), archive qemu ok
[fboudra], 2012-03-07] Tom, I guess you refer to "cross" with live-build-linaro. In my case, Debian qemu works with upstream live-build. I reported a bug against qemu-linaro: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947888
[rsalveti, Mar 28, 2012] Any update on the remaining WIs?
[rsalveti, Apr 2, 2012] The remaining one for ALIP is useful to have an image for it, but not part of the enablement covered by this bp. This will happen at 12.04 once we officially switch to precise.

Meta:
Headline: User of the live-build image creation tool can now create armhf based images which runs on native arm or cross on an intel machine.
Acceptance: Images are successfully being generated and boot correctly.

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Work Items

Work items:
prototype : DONE
refresh live-build sources: DONE
create seeds for precise: DONE
upload linaro-meta precise/armhf: DONE
add armhf support: DONE
generate native test build for nano: DONE
generate cross test build for nano: DONE
generate native test build for developer: DONE
generate cross test build for developer: DONE
generate native test build for ALIP: DONE
generate cross test build for ALIP: TODO
generate native test build for desktop: DONE
generate cross test build for desktop: DONE
nano image test boots: DONE
developer image test boots: DONE
alip image test boots: POSTPONED
desktop image test boots : DONE

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