Hello Guys,
I have a question on the roadmap for the CentosArm kernel . One of the reasons why people love Centos is the fact that it enjoys a longer support cycle than other distributions , which force the user to upgrade the whole OS every 6 months . But at the same time Centos backports important fixes , and improvements to the kernel to keep it up to date . So having a long term OS combined with kernel that is maintained is a very good reason for using Centos .
So I wanted to ask : What is the strategy for the arm kernels , is there going to be an active program to maintain the arm kernel ? I know that the regular Centos kernel is not viable for arm , it lacks a lot of support for arm hardware . We need a more modern version that is still long term supported but newer . My suggestion would be to take kernel 4.4 as the Centos arm main kernel . It has support for arm basic hw , and it is compatible with driver source code that is needed to be added for boards such as bananapi R1 (or also known as Lamobo R1) .
I my self am using Fedora's 4.4 kernels made for the fc22 line , but am expecting soon for that to disappear once fc24 comes out . And then no more kernel updates from fedora .
Best Regards Milorad