Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply!

Le 13 janvier 2018 à 15:16, Fabian Arrotin a écrit :


On 13/01/18 11:50, Thomas F. Burdick wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to try to install CentOS on an Odroid Xu4 board I have. The
board is supposed to be supported by the mainline 4.14 kernel. From what
I've gathered, it should be possible to build an image with the 4.14
kernel (possibly taken from Fedora) and a CentOS 7 system. But I haven't
found instructions on how to go about assembling such an image.

Could anyone give any pointers? Or would I be better off just using Fedora?

Thanks for your help,
Thomas

First question : armhfp (armv7) or aarch64 (armv8) ?
If that's armhfp, is there a need for 4.14 or a 4.9 LTS would contain
what you'd need for that board ?
Depending on your answer, it can be really easy to build the image (or
better, just modify an existing one) to boot on such board.

It's armhfp, and from what I understood from the hardkernel site, they got support into the mainline 4.14 kernel. So I could either use a custom 4.9 kernel, or the mainstream 4.14, which is what I'd prefer.

In the past, odroid/hardkernel never worked with stock/vanilla kernels,
and same for uboot.
If you confirm that it now does, chances are that we can have something
available soon :-)

Can you give more details ? like, have you tested Fedora already ? It
Fedora works, then likely that means that uboot images can now support
natively that odroid board, and we can give it a quick try with a CentOS
image, etc ..

I haven't tested it with Fedora yet. The variant I have is headless, and it seems I need to pick up a new USB-UART cable. I should be able to test it Tuesday or Wednesday.

-Thomas