Hi everyone!
I just joined the list. Total arm/rpi4 beginner here. Been using Fedora for a year on my personal computer (switched from Apple). Thats my background. My goal is to have my rpi4 run a webserver for my Django projects. I have been experimenting with Raspberry Pi OS, Fedora 33 and Centos 7/8 on the Raspberry. I would like to use a yum/dnf based distribution on the Pi, because I am a bit more familiar with its cli. I believe that the CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2009-sda.raw image would be the way to go.
But frankly I am terrified by configuring all the different sources for the latest packages (sqlite3, django 3, and so on) and getting them to interact flawlessly without breaking the system.
Fedora does not have a native rpi4 image. They are generic and boot differently that the CentOS one.
Can I use the boot partition from CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2009-sda.raw combined with the Fedora Userland? Id have to disable kernel updates I guess and cross compile them myself (done that successfully yesterday).
TLDR:
My question is: How do I get the native rpi4 centos way to boot combined with fedora userland?
Jay
On 6/12/20 18:39, Jascha Gerold via Arm-dev wrote:
Hi everyone! I just joined the list. Total arm/rpi4 beginner here. Been using Fedora for a year on my personal computer (switched from Apple). Thats my background. My goal is to have my rpi4 run a webserver for my Django projects. I have been experimenting with Raspberry Pi OS, Fedora 33 and Centos 7/8 on the Raspberry. I would like to use a yum/dnf based distribution on the Pi, because I am a bit more familiar with its cli. I believe that the CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2009-sda.raw image would be the way to go. But frankly I am terrified by configuring all the different sources for the latest packages (sqlite3, django 3, and so on) and getting them to interact flawlessly without breaking the system. Fedora does not have a native rpi4 image. They are generic and boot differently that the CentOS one.
Can I use the boot partition from CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2009-sda.raw combined with the Fedora Userland? Id have to disable kernel updates I guess and cross compile them myself (done that successfully yesterday).
TLDR: My question is: How do I get the native rpi4 centos way to boot combined with fedora userland?
Jay
Hello Jay, welcome! Let me see if I can address your questions together. and a bit out of order. If your idea is to use Fedora userland, then I'd use fedora altogether, they don't have rpi4 specific builds, but they don't need it either. Fedora uses always the latest mainline kernel, and it has "good enough" support for what you're trying to do (basically headless). If you were trying to do something with graphics, it would be a completely different story. If you decide to use CentOS, I'd not use the armv7hl image (32 bits) and go straight to aarch64. There's no official image yet, but I've posted one that is working really well https://people.centos.org/pgreco/CentOS-Userland-8-stream-aarch64-RaspberryP... , and this is where I keep the updated kernels https://people.centos.org/pgreco/rpi_aarch64_el8/ (along with other rpi-specific stuff)
HTH Pablo.
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Pablo Sebastián Greco