On 16/03/18 14:15, Marc Balmer wrote:
Hi Fabian
Am 16.03.2018 um 13:41 schrieb Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org:
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/ on 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)
I did as you said and I can confirm that this boots. Just ping me if you want me to test anything. Is there an IRC channel for CentOS on ARM?
Thanks for you help!
- Marc
Hi Marc,
Glad that it works. So I'll probably sign/release that kernel in the updates dir, but it the previous image doesn't even boot, that means we need to generate an updated one that would support both rpi2/rpi3/rpi3b+ and not wait for 7.5.18xx release, as I guess some people will try to use the rpi3B+ model before that :) (as you just did)
Have you tested that wifi works ?
For irc, yes, we have #centos-arm .. :-)
PS : I have ordered myself a pi3b+ board that should arrive next week to also test it.