Support for Ubuntu Desktop on Marvell SoCs
This specification tracks the status of support for the Mavell board for the Karmic 9.10 cycle.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- David Mandala
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Michael Casadevall
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Michael Casadevall
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for karmic
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
karmic-alpha-6
- Started by
- Michael Casadevall
- Completed by
- Michael Casadevall
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
Work items:
Initial setup of hardware, creation of tracking pages on status of HW support [1 day]: DONE
Modification of livecd-rootfs to be capable of building dove live filesystems: DONE
Installation of uboot-mkimage onto antimony: DONE
Modification of ubuntu-cdimage to create new dove subarchitecture for armel [2 days]: DONE
Merger of ubuntu-cdimage changes onto antimony: DONE
Create kernel flavour with udeb (to be done by kernel team): DONE
Add new kernel flavour name to supported-kernel seed (needed for d-i according to Michael): DONE
bootloader investigation [1 day]: DONE
adding armel+dove to d-i (needed for ubiquity according to Michael) [3 days]: DONE
Merging d-i changes into mainline [depends on kernel]: DONE
flash-kernel support for dove [3 days] (initial implementation, still needs some discussion): DONE
Basic port of ubiquity that can handle kernel installation [1 day]: DONE
Documentation of development installation process [2-3 hours]: DONE
Extension of u-boot to handle autobooting: DONE
Modifying partman to properly create partition tables that u-boot can handle [2-3 days]: DONE
Debug usplash on dove: DONE
Addition to the QA tracker [5 min]: DONE
Status:
Done!
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
