On 3/5/19 5:48 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 3/4/19 3:39 PM, Mike McTernan (wavemobile) wrote:
Looking around, I found the following repo: https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/centos-altarch/7/kernel/i386/
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That directory (kernel/ under altarch) is basically for the armhfp main kernel, but we are building also for aarch64, i386 and even x86_64. Its purpose (other than armhfp, where it is the main kernel) is mainly for IoT type hardware (think hobby boards, embedded systems, etc that need newer kernels for hardware support .. think things like this:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/solutions/iot.html
or
64 bit aarch64 bit type IoT boards, etc.
You certainly CAN use them on anything you want and it will be maintained as it is the main kernel for armhfp.
That’s excellent, and most helpful. So that brings support for newer hardware, AND provides a PAE version which works on all my hardware nicely.
This might be useful to a number of people, and it was only through looking around CentOS 7 on Raspberry Pi that I happened across the kernel repo. Might it be worth linking to the repo from the AltArch/i386 page:
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386
Both of these branches / repos are NOT designed to run Enterprise type workloads (that is why we have the main RH kernel from RHEL sources) ..
Yep - wise words and duly noted, thank you. My application is small scale, so should be fine. Software is only as good as the testing anyway :-)
Last question, if I may - Is there any specific reason why an i686 PAE kernel built from the main RHEL sources isn't in the AltArch i386 os- repo?
Notably CentOS 6 provided both non-PAE and PAE 32-bit kernels, and it's that step from CentOS 6 32-bit PAE onto CentOS 7 32-bit which made me stumble, but okay now.
Many Thanks again,
Mike --
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