On 16/03/18 13:32, Marc Balmer wrote:
Good day
Here's a report of using CentOS 7 minimal from http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/%C2%A0on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. tl;dr: I't does not boot.
So I just got a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. I prepared an MiniSD card on a Raspberry Pi 3 (the previous) model and tried to boot the RPI B+ from that. But it won't boot, the screen just shows the nice color spectrum.
If you have any hints or ideas, please let me know...
. mb
Hi, thanks a lot for the report : I don't have (yet) rpi3 B+ to test this , unfortunately , but :
What I've already done (built yesterday) : - rebased firmware to newer version - rebased kernel to 4.9.80
All that is actually available, but unsigned, so if you want to give it a try, that would be useful :
Can you boot that sdcard on a rpi2/rpi3 device ? and then update ? Then test booting on the rpi3b+ ?
Pointing a .repo file to https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/arm-kernels/raspberrypi2/ should bring you to 4.8.80 kernel and updated firmware Raw pkgs are there : https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/arm-kernels/raspberrypi2/20180315125718...
Worth noting that it seems rpi foundation bumped kernel to 4.14.x but continue to maintain the 4.9 lts branch, as last commits show backports for rpi3b model :
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/eb7b3df1fd5dfa4645da2986ffb6d9ca...
That's the one that was used to build the 4.9.80 pkg mentioned above.
Let us know how that works on your side (or not)