<HTML><BODY><p style='margin-top: 0px;' dir="ltr">Yes, sorry, i didn't specify. Arm6 would be a lot more work as its not a normal build for any of the wider red hat community distros, and will likely lose favor as an architecture in time (IMO).<br></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 03:28PM -05:00 from Fabian Arrotin <arrfab@centos.org>:</p>
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On 13/05/15 18:12, cc35359 gma wrote:<br>
> Fabian, I dont normally travel to these CentOS mailing lists,<br>
> however, I wanted to mention about how I shoved Fedora Rawhide on<br>
> a number of raspberry pis, because i think it would be a highly<br>
> advantageous idea to push out at least a minimal image for the<br>
> raspberry pi with the armv7 release for CentOS 7. If not that, at<br>
> least have a clear path for those wanting it. In my adventures<br>
> with rawhide on the raspis, i've found that the best way to<br>
> handle the hardware is by using the kernel actually distributed<br>
> by the raspi foundation, versus compiling my own. unfortunately<br>
> there are a few broadcom pieces that make it difficult. In order<br>
> to get rawhide running, it was a very simple process. 1. mount the<br>
> fedora image 2. make an sd card paritioned how you want it (i<br>
> dont use swap on sd card, so just 500 mb for /boot, and the rest<br>
> for /. 3. rsync the data to the sd card, except the boot. 4. copy<br>
> the boot directory from the raspi's git with the necessary<br>
> firmware. 5. copy the kernel libraries. 6. i created a dracut<br>
> initrd because i needed to have dm-crypt available because i<br>
> normally encrypt the / partition myself. 7. modify fstab,<br>
> boot.txt, cmdline.txt as necessary 8. boot, and its magic. I<br>
> dont mind repeating the process for a centos image if help is<br>
> needed, perhaps creating a scripted method to generate the images<br>
> for the future would be something to look into. So that was a lot<br>
> of rambling, but long story short, i can assist you with a<br>
> raspberry pi image based on my fedora creations if we feel that<br>
> centos can provide such an image. otherwise once the armv7<br>
> packages are ready, i can create documentation and a potential<br>
> "offsite" image if there are legal reasons for not supplying it.<br>
> thanks for listening, -David<br>
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Hi David,<br>
Welcome to the list !<br>
Let's see what comes out of the armv7hl builds, but I guess that you<br>
meant Raspberry pi2 , as that one is armv7hl, while raspi1 is armv6<br>
(afaik)<br>
- --<br>
Fabian Arrotin<br>
The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org<br>
gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab<br>
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