On 04/05/2016 12:34 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 04/05/2016 10:04 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
I haven't tried, so I'm honestly not sure. You might be able to take the disk-image we put out for developers and copy its contents over the ubuntu image (you'd want to maintain the ubuntu contents of /lib/firmware and /lib/modules as well as the other kernel bits).
I'm assuming that this is http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.2.1603/isos/aarch64/CentOS-aarch64.img.xz ; is that correct?
Yup, that's the one. There are 4 partitions to it, and to me kpartx is the easiest way to abuse images like this.
I think it's more that the manufacturers are choosing to support a particular Ubuntu or Debian, and their blobs for hardware support seem to be more 'accepted' in that ecosystem. But that's just my opinion. It may be that the supplied hardkernel kernel will work ok with a CentOS userland; and I may try the 32-bit userland on the hardkernel kernel as well.
I'd be interested to know if the 32bit userland worked with their kernel.
For what its worth, there is a recent patchset on the arm-kernel list supporting the C2 (and other Amlogic S905-based boards) in 4.6 mainline. [1] So it may be that the 4.6 ARM64 kernel can be used as is; we'll see.
Yup. Some of the pieces are going in, so I'm a bit hopeful.
I see I have a bit to learn, but that's ok. That's part of the fun. I'll report back with what I find in a few days or a week or so.
Let me know if you have questions. I'll try to help as much as I can.