socle
This is a simple yet modular SoC configuration utility, very much like raspi-config and others alike. This one is written in Python and it aims to be extendable. The name has no other meaning than it's a real word and it starts with SoC ;)
Features
Preliminary support for following has been implemented:
- Configure hostname
- Configure timezone
- Configure wired/wireless network interfaces on Debian
- Switch off bells and whistles if it is used via UART
Boards
Following boards will be supported:
- Cubieboard2
- Cubietruck
- Raspberry Pi
- ZYBO
- Radxa
Debian jessie running on Cubietruck:
Raspbian running on Raspberry Pi:
Ubuntu 12.04 running on ZYBO:
Short term goals
As I have exams and other school assignments from the beginning until mid-July I won't have much time to work on the short term goals but the last two days of EuroPython 2014 is assigned to sprints and that's where I intend to finish all of the following so feel free to join and help me out:
- Support u-boot configuration parsing, modifying
- Support /etc/modules parsing and modifying
- Support platform specific configuration editing, eg. video outputs, GPIO pins etc.
- Foolproofing UART connections, no fancy UI there
- Support configuring wired/wireless network interfaces
- Support configuring of remote management clients like Puppet and Salt minion
- Support configuring VPN clients like OpenVPN and StrongSwan
Long term goals
- Support Debian adoption on SoC-s
- Support for generating root filesystem images using debootstrap/febootstrap/arch-bootstrap etc
- Support for managing PL bitstream files
Author
Lauri Võsandi is embedded systems student currently pursuing his master degree at Technical University of Berlin. I am usually present at #linux-sunxi and #linux-rockchip channels on Freenode IRC as lauri, that's also my registered nick there ;)