I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1804) for POWER9 processors (ppc64le - powerpc 64-bit little endian). This release is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 ALT.

Note this release is 99% equivalent to the existing CentOS 7 Linux 7 (1804) for POWER8 processors (ppc64le - powerpc 64-bit little endian). The key difference being that kernel-4.14.0 is used for POWER9 enablement and kernel-3.10.0 is used for POWER8 enablement.

You will find the CentOS 7 (1804) Power9 installation images here:

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.5.1804/isos/power9/

sha256sum power9: 753c5b55c9ff681c925ec7d7c5295890284f40ec981f4da35b1f36f1ecbad95a CentOS-7-Power9-Everything-1804.iso 58d9af172656db71947b5db2d0d1f577217bbc1a86eada7ca3ce7bfcf7d7d9b4 CentOS-7-Power9-NetInstall-1804.iso

CentOS 7 (1804) Power9 repositories: http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.5.1804/os/power9/ http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.5.1804/updates/power9/ http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.5.1804/extras/power9/

A special thank you to Johnny Hughes and Pablo Greco for their assistance making this release possible.

-James O’Connor