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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0; min-height: 10pt; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Just for the appreciation for all the work Pablo did (we make much use of it);</p>
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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0; min-height: 10pt; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Downloaded the image, flashed it and boot up right away..</p>
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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0; min-height: 10pt; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As for Centos 8 I'll took the liberty to copy-cat and create an aarch64 development-image for the RPI4<br /></span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0; min-height: 10pt; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">( I run libvirt on it ot test aarch64 and armhfp packages in VM's on it and it did not let me down once...)<br /></span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0; min-height: 10pt; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Awating a 5.x kernel with somewhat decent RPI 4 support i'v prepared aarch64 U-boot build with a <EFI/centos> patch</span></p>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px; margin: 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original message-----<br /><span><strong>From:</strong> R C <cjvijf@gmail.com></span><br /><span><strong>Sent:</strong> Tuesday, June 2, 2020 7:48 PM</span><br /><span><strong>To:</strong> Pablo Sebastián Greco <pablo@fliagreco.com.ar>; Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware <arm-dev@centos.org></span><br /><span><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [Arm-dev] Centos on rpi4</span><br /><br /></span>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br />On 6/2/20 11:36 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:<br />><br />> On 2/6/20 13:52, R C wrote:<br />>> Hello,<br />>><br />>> I am trying to get Centos going on an RPI4 with 4GB;<br />>><br />>><br />>> so far I tried to use:<br />>><br />>> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2003-sda.raw.xz<br />>><br />>> (which does seem to do much of anything at all, black screen)<br />>><br />>><br />> This is the image I use normally for my work on my rpi4-4G without any <br />> issues (32bit-lpae memory)<br /><br /><br />Ok, I'll try that again. (I have no idea what lpae memory is, I just <br />bought an rpi4 with 4gb)<br /><br /><br />>> and:<br />>><br />>> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz:<br />>><br />>> which seems to display the "rainbow screen", but that's about i.<br />> That's expected not to work on rpi-4, so that's ok<br />>><br />>><br />>> Is there a different Centos image that would work Or is there some <br />>> setting that's needed?<br />>><br />>><br />>> thanks,<br />>><br />>><br />>> Ron<br />>><br />>><br />>> _______________________________________________<br />>> Arm-dev mailing list<br />>> Arm-dev@centos.org<br />>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev<br />_______________________________________________<br />Arm-dev mailing list<br />Arm-dev@centos.org<br />https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev<br /></pre>
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