Snappy ODROID-C1 image available for testing

[Simon Eisenmann]

Hi,

On 06/15/2015 07:29 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 
> Simon - nice work! I read your blog post and agree with your points. We
> are working on the OEM developer experience and hope that some of the
> issues that you have encountered will get figured out in the next while.

Sounds awesome. I will be happy to provide feedback as changes come
available.

> One of my fellow developers has prepared a number of Snappy kernel
> version specific branches containing config changes and back ported
> Apparmor patches. For example,
> 'git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ppisati/ubuntu-vivid.git snappy_v3.10'.

Yes i was pointed to this tree via IRC and it helped a lot. Though i
think the Kernel situation needs a little more generic approach / docs.
Even after i found what someone else did back port - it was still
unclear where these patches actually came from. That mystery got solved
somewhat on IRC as well thanks to the help of John Johansen - but still
AppArmor requirements for Snappy have no pointer to a Kernel tree (tag)
- which explains where and what needs to be in a Kernel to work 100%
with Ubuntu Snappy. I only can guess/hope that my Kernel has it all now.
Maybe a script like
https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/contrib/check-config.sh
should be created to check the Kernel config defines.

> I agree that creating an initrd is a bit difficult. I wrote a more
> general script that replaces the content of an existing device tarball
> with a developer kernel and modules. Your logic pretty much does the
> same thing for ODROID-C1.
> 
> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/snappy-tools.git

I am more or less fine with how it is currently done for now. Though
considering how i build non snappy images with debootstrap i think some
chroot way to build the initrd from scratch would be better, avoiding an
existing tarball and creating everything from deb files.

> Stay tuned for information on device activation, authentication, and
> fully signed systems.

I am looking forward to this.


Thanks
Simon

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