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On 01/02/16 10:06, johan.vermeulen7@telenet.be wrote:

Hello All,

this is my first post on this mailing list.

In our organization we have just over 100 thinclients. One day I thought: wouldn't it be great if we could replace them with Rasberry Pi's?

After experimenting with that I thought: this arm is great, cheap, silent and shiny new. So I was thinking: I need something stronger than the Rasberry Pi. Maybe I can replace some light servers as well.

So I bought a Hummingboard Edge from Solidrun and had it shipped from Israel. The strongest model I could find. Here are the specs: https://www.solid-run.com/freescale-imx6-family/hummingboard/hummingboard-sp...

Can anybody help me get Centos7 running on that? So far I tried the CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-RaspberryPi2.img.xz and the CentOS-7-aarch64.img.xz I haven't tested in any detail so far but both showed nothing on the screen.

My ultimate goal would be to use Hummingboards with Centos7 on them as Ovirt or Kubernetes nodes.

Thanks for any advise.

Greetings, Johan

One thing to keep in mind is that there is a big diff between armhfp/armv7hl and aarch64, so testing the aarch64 img on that board (armhfp) will not work. The, the fun begins with armhfp, as the rpi2 image is very specific (and obviously only works on the rpi2). Actually busy at cfgmgmtcamp.eu event, so not having a lot of time to dive into details, but at first sight, you should look at the exact specs, and see if upstream kernel/uboot are already supporting it. If so, chances are high that we can have CentOS 7 running on it directly, but with the correct uboot image.

Talking about oVirt, what do you have in mind ? as you can't really do virt on those armhfp nodes. Kubernetes/docker containers would *eventually* be possible, but not now, as we have (not yet) a working docker rpm for armhfp

- -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab

This reads very much like Freescale's wandboards. Look them up and compare. If so, use the Centos image for the Cubietruck, then dd the wandboard uboot and give that a try.

Off hand, without doing some research, I do not know of any other Freescale based boards currently supportable with what we have inherited for the Fedora-arm project.

On 02/01/2016 04:06 AM, johan.vermeulen7@telenet.be wrote:

Hello All,

this is my first post on this mailing list.

In our organization we have just over 100 thinclients. One day I thought: wouldn't it be great if we could replace them with Rasberry Pi's?

After experimenting with that I thought: this arm is great, cheap, silent and shiny new. So I was thinking: I need something stronger than the Rasberry Pi. Maybe I can replace some light servers as well.

So I bought a Hummingboard Edge from Solidrun and had it shipped from Israel. The strongest model I could find. Here are the specs: https://www.solid-run.com/freescale-imx6-family/hummingboard/hummingboard-sp...

Can anybody help me get Centos7 running on that? So far I tried the CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-RaspberryPi2.img.xz and the CentOS-7-aarch64.img.xz I haven't tested in any detail so far but both showed nothing on the screen.

My ultimate goal would be to use Hummingboards with Centos7 on them as Ovirt or Kubernetes nodes.

Thanks for any advise.

Greetings, Johan

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