Yes, sorry, i didn't specify. Arm6 would be a lot more work as its not a normal build for any of the wider red hat community distros, and will likely lose favor as an architecture in time (IMO).
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Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 03:28PM -05:00 from Fabian Arrotin <arrfab@centos.org>:
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On 13/05/15 18:12, cc35359 gma wrote:
> Fabian, I dont normally travel to these CentOS mailing lists,
> however, I wanted to mention about how I shoved Fedora Rawhide on
> a number of raspberry pis, because i think it would be a highly
> advantageous idea to push out at least a minimal image for the
> raspberry pi with the armv7 release for CentOS 7. If not that, at
> least have a clear path for those wanting it. In my adventures
> with rawhide on the raspis, i've found that the best way to
> handle the hardware is by using the kernel actually distributed
> by the raspi foundation, versus compiling my own. unfortunately
> there are a few broadcom pieces that make it difficult. In order
> to get rawhide running, it was a very simple process. 1. mount the
> fedora image 2. make an sd card paritioned how you want it (i
> dont use swap on sd card, so just 500 mb for /boot, and the rest
> for /. 3. rsync the data to the sd card, except the boot. 4. copy
> the boot directory from the raspi's git with the necessary
> firmware. 5. copy the kernel libraries. 6. i created a dracut
> initrd because i needed to have dm-crypt available because i
> normally encrypt the / partition myself. 7. modify fstab,
> boot.txt, cmdline.txt as necessary 8. boot, and its magic. I
> dont mind repeating the process for a centos image if help is
> needed, perhaps creating a scripted method to generate the images
> for the future would be something to look into. So that was a lot
> of rambling, but long story short, i can assist you with a
> raspberry pi image based on my fedora creations if we feel that
> centos can provide such an image. otherwise once the armv7
> packages are ready, i can create documentation and a potential
> "offsite" image if there are legal reasons for not supplying it.
> thanks for listening, -David
>
Hi David,
Welcome to the list !
Let's see what comes out of the armv7hl builds, but I guess that you
meant Raspberry pi2 , as that one is armv7hl, while raspi1 is armv6
(afaik)
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Fabian Arrotin
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