socle 0.5

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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 ;)