[Arm-dev] What's the best support hardware model ?

Tue Dec 1 11:48:34 UTC 2015
Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org>

On 2015-12-01 11:43, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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> On 01/12/15 12:38, Andreas Reschke wrote:
>> Am 01.12.2015 11:23, schrieb Fabian Arrotin: On 01/12/15 11:11,
>> Andreas Reschke wrote:
>>>>> Hi there, I want to replace some servers (SOHO, Mail-, web-,
>>>>> Infrastructure, X86_64, all with CentOS) with ARM-Servers.
>>>>> I've a /home-Server with Odroid XU4 (Cloudshell) with Fedora
>>>>> running fine.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Are there other ARM-Devices running CentOS easy?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen Andreas Reschke
>>>>> 
>> 
>> We're *currently* building CentOS 7 images for armv7hl, and what
>> we have working/validated so far : - bananapi - cubietruck -
>> raspberrypi2
>> 
>> I'd like myself to see it working on Odroid c1, but the fact that
>> hardkernel guys don't have it supported in upstream kernel doesn't
>> help (and just having it compiling doesn't work on my side -yet- )
>> 
>> Does Fedora just runs fine on your xu4 ? (I mean is that an
>> official Fedora image, or a custom one found on internet). If
>> that's an official one, chances are high that it can work fine, but
>> that would need to be tested
>> 
>> So "stay tuned" .. ;-)
>> 
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>> Thanks all for your replay.
>> 
>> I will compare the Odroid Xu4 with the cubietruck.
>> 
>> @Fabian: Yes, Fedora runs fine on my Odroid XU4 with the Cloudshell
>> and the integrated TFT-Display. [root at odroid ~]# uname -a Linux
>> odroid.reschke.lan 4.2.0+ #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 1 13:28:39 CEST
>> 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux [root at odroid ~]#
>> http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:xu4_building_kernel
>> 
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen Andreas Reschke
>> 
> 
> Well, my question around Fedora was about using the stock image from
> Fedora (and so "stock" fedora kernel), but you pointed to the odroid
> forum and custom kernel build, so can you clarify if you're running
> Fedora "official" image, or a custom one with a custom kernel ?


If you have Fedora working, there should be no reason why you
couldn't simply use the Fedora kernel with CentOS.

Gordan