Thanks for your answer Fabiàn.

Regards,

*Javier Romero*

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2018-02-11 13:05 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org:

On 11/02/18 00:50, Javier Romero wrote:

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Hi Fabiàn,

Is testing on Raspberry PI 3 also needed?

Regards,

Not yet, as I built only the "generic/mainline" kernel In theory, that would normally work with such kernel now, as that's how Fedora does it (using mainline and not the raspberrypi foundation kernel from https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux) but it would probably need then proper uboot support too (something to investigate)

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On 15/02/18 21:59, Iván Chavero wrote:

On 10/02/18 10:32, Fabian Arrotin wrote:

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Hi,

Some people asked for a newer 4.14 kernel recently as they'd like to test some boards, and not rely on the initial kernel provided by the vendor, so in fact relying on the mainline upstream kernel. As some boards received support in newer 4.14 branch (now also LTS) we're considering a bump from 4.9.x to 4.14.x branch for armhfp.

Kernel 4.14.17-201.el7 was so built last week and is available in a testing repo : .repo file that can be created is :

[kernel-testing] name=kernel-testing baseurl=https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/arm-kernels/kernel/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0

If you can give feedback that would be appreciated. So far it was tested on cubietruck and bananapi

Cheers,

I've tested on Centos cubietruck plus in the past and it didn't work because of sunxi options or patches that werent's added or enabled is there a guide to integrate this kernel to the image so i can test it?

We never released a "Cubietruck plus" CentOS image , but only a Cubietruck one (plus is cubieboard5 and cubietruck is cubieboard5) Here is the image : http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Min...

But we have doc on the wiki about how to use an image/RootFS and just adapt what's needed for other board :

https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32#head-f796aaff2cab...

And Cubietruck_plus is listed there (but I only have a rpi2/rpi3 and cubietruck at home, so I can't test all those boards).

So can you test that procedure (almost 100% sure that it will work for your board) ?

Once you have booted it, you'll run the 4.9 kernel by default , and a yum upate will bring you to the last one we released for that branch (so 4.9.75)

Then it's up to you to use the other testing repo to test kernel 4.14.17 (it works fine on my Cubietruck)

Cheers

On 16/02/18 16:24, Johnny Hughes wrote:

On 02/16/2018 12:46 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:

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On 15/02/18 21:59, Iván Chavero wrote:

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On 10/02/18 10:32, Fabian Arrotin wrote:

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Hi,

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I just tried the cubietruck plus with our u-boot and the custom 'u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin' for Cubietruck_plus from our build .. and also with the Fedora 28 Rawhide custom 'u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin' I get no video out OR DHCP ip4 or ipv6 address.

I think this board is still not really supported .. as the current page for the 'A83T' (the SOC for the cubietruck plus) here is very much not yet in mainline:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

I also tried booting Fedora 27 and it did not work for me.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes

So, with this in mind, we discussed on irc (#centos-arm) with Pablo and it seems that the better way would be to backport patches from 4.15.x into that 4.14.x (LTS branch)

Pablo is busy testing that, but we also created a git repository where we have all the specific changes for AltArch (including mods that are needed to build for armhfp as an example) : https://github.com/CentOS/sig-core-AltArch

kernel-4.14 is also there, so Pull Requests are welcome and discussion can then happen there too :-)