[Arm-dev] Fwd: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS AltArch 7 (1511)

Sun Dec 20 00:25:08 UTC 2015
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

It would be great if you can build a generic image with /usr/share/uboot 
and on the wiki provide instructions to use the fedora-arm-installer.  
Or ask over on the Fedora-arm devel team if we can make a 
centos-arm-installer from it.

We might get a larger take up.

Stay tune for some new thoughts about things I would like to figure out 
how to best handle...

And thank you for all you have done to get us to this point.

On 12/19/2015 06:12 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
>
> In case some people wouldn't be subscribed to the centos-announce list ;-)
>
> - -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) on x86_64
> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:47:23 +0000
> From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
> Reply-To: centos at centos.org
> To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce at centos.org>
>
>
> I would like to announce the general availability of the following
> CentOS AltArch 7 Releases:
>
> * CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for i686
> * CentOS AltArch UserLand 7 (1511) for Armhfp
> * CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for PowerPC64 (TechPreview)
> * CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for PowerPC8 LE (TechPreview)
>
> We anticipate CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for Aarch64 will be ready for
> release within the coming days, and will be announced independently.
>
> The CentOS AltArch SIG is a group of people working to build alternative
> architecture support derived from CentOS Linux's sources. You can find
> more details about the AltArch group at
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch including details
> on how to get involved and ways to get help for architecture specific
> issues.
>
> Releases under the AltArch SIG are hosted at
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/ and available from external mirrors
> via rsync, http, ftp as usual, however under the /altarch/ path. Yum
> configs shipped in the altarch builds points at mirror.centos.org
> instead of mirrorlist or the external mirrors, as we are still working
> through the mechanics to facilitate the wider mirrorlist process. We
> hope to have this in place within the next 2 months, and updates to the
> yum configs will be issued, when ready, via an updated centos-release rpm.
>
> We are hosting a CentOS Dojo in Brussels, Belgium on the 29th Jan 2016.
> Lots of the key people working on the AltArch builds will be present
> there and it would be a great forum to engage with these groups. You can
> get the details for the event at
> https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2016 including the
> registration links.
>
> In order to bootstrap these builds, we have turned on direct downloads
> of this content from mirror.centos.org. We do encourage people with the
> capacity to help seed with external mirrors. Details on howto run a
> CentOS Mirror are available at
> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreatePublicMirrors
>
> A key part of our AltArch plans is to make resources available to all
> the other SIG's in the CentOS environment, so they are able to build,
> test, deliver their content for these architectures. We are working on
> setting things up, and hope to start rolling out altarch support for
> https://cbs.centos.org/ in the first quarter of 2016. If you are engaged
> in any of the SIGs and would like to find out more details, please come
> along to our buildsystems meeting that takes place on Mondays in
> #centos-devel on irc.freenode.net. Details on this meeting and the other
> SIG meetings can be found in our community meetings calendar published
> at https://www.centos.org/community/calendar/ .
>
> Bug reports and feedback about specific packages should be filed at
> https://bugs.centos.org/ against the relevant package name, for project
> CentOS Linux 7, in the same manner as you would for x86_64. However, do
> mention the architecture as applicable.
>
> - --------
> CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for i686 : This architecture build supports
> 32-bit Intel/AMD x86 machines and 32 bit IOT x86 boards.
>
> SIG Notes: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386
>
>   * CentOS-7-i386-DVD-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> 6af64d8371ed8fb95a56c99530f0dc3eb287e58f72c009c686db0fb80c39f83f
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-DVD-1511.iso
>
> * CentOS-7-i386-Everything-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> 918e0ade9f642c93531c414defeecfc9b2c2a9589d57642d690e46e42b0af82a
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-Everything-1511.iso
>
>   * CentOS-7-i386-LiveGNOME-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> a03af3c7f6c75c74e1da5d1551ceaf5922427762c5cd6503f4f5e972737134ed
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-LiveGNOME-1511.iso
>
> *  CentOS-7-i386-LiveKDE-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> 9fdef81423b872c361bac3ac55718822b4420de1645a4da8d7a255ae500965fc
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-LiveKDE-1511.iso
>
> * CentOS-7-i386-Minimal-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> df6edebec370bdee59e67eb70fab7ddc2fcf4c437803ca9e3213552b3908c4e1
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-Minimal-1511.iso
>
> * CentOS-7-i386-NetInstall-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> b106a0c13c86db86aaf821b66da1119063479e8776b8711dbbd35042b16bfd6d
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-NetInstall-1511.iso
>
>
> - --------
> CentOS AltArch UserLand 7 (1511) for Armhfp : This architecture build
> delivers support for ARMv7hl devices including the Raspberry pi2, Cubie
> Truck, Bananapi and similar hardware.
>
> SIG Notes: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32
>
> The armhfp build is delivered as a userland build, implying that kernel
> and bootloader delivered is not derived from the CentOS Linux 7 distro,
> but comes from either an upstream kernel.org mainline kernel or is a
> vendor supported kernel for their own hardware piece. As such, the
> Armhfp build does not aim to deliver a complete feature set, and is
> labelled as a UserLand release. There are also no installer images
> delivered for this architecture. The images shipped are ready to run and
> are board specific. While there is plenty of desktop and X related
> support available, our focus for these builds has been towards the
> server and IoT roles.
>
> We have a dedicated mailing list for the ARM ports ( both Armhfp and
> Aarch64 ) at https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev ;
> questions specific to these builds and images should be posted there.
>
> * CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-BananaPi.img.xz
>     sha256sum :
> d461144b471434a275268e85828def38c09e265da24b71d2f10771d264532368
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-BananaPi.img.xz
>
> * CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-CubieTruck.img.xz
>     sha256sum :
> 17c3944429ac323c636ee955062d8177219f397fea4416dca87ca19092b646ec
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-CubieTruck.img.xz
>
> *CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-RaspberryPi2.img.xz
>     sha256sum :
> 05e8c58cd837b90c0ab423b3730ee20ad185e19f346f531d3717c51358ea72cf
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-RaspberryPi2.img.xz
>
> - --------
> CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for PowerPC64 (TechPreview) : This architecture
> is for 64-bit IBM POWER7 machines using big endian byte ordering. We are
> marking this as a Tech Preview release, as it needs wider testing before
> it can be adopted as a GA release.
>
> SIG Notes: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/ppc64
>
> * CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64-Everything-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> 40ce665db62483a044a6d1a4996b2d5b507eb7f43c5e7846116dbd72e9e64e6a
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64/CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64-Everything-1511.iso
>
> * CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64-NetInstall-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> 46715a965f98901fabed13076aba879c32dd51b7bab63fa035b61a5b051f0b04
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64/CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64-NetInstall-1511.iso
>
> - --------
> CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for PowerPC8 LE (TechPreview) : This
> architecture is for 64-bit IBM POWER8 machines using little endian byte
> ordering. We are marking this as a Tech Preview release, as it needs
> wider testing before it can be adopted as a GA release.
>
> SIG Notes: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/ppc64le
>
> *  CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64le-Everything-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> 713ea707eea4eb75d7ff27648e6e3a4e97738bc3b2b274d1e9dc629fe537a170
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64le/CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64le-Everything-1511.iso
>
> * CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64le-NetInstall-1511.iso
>     sha256sum :
> fa7c5f504e56ad9115b820b1cf6650e6c20c6ca6224b155ef0c12e1be8e8f666
>     direct link :
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64le/CentOS-7-AltArch-ppc64le-NetInstall-1511.iso
>
>
> - --------
>
> I'd like to thank everyone involved in this process. We have come a long
> way down the route from the initial plans of getting the AltArch project
> bootstrapped, and its only down to the dedciated efforts from the people
> involved in this process that we are able to deliver support for five
> new architectures.
>
> I also want to take this opportunity to point out that we run an office
> hours forum, twice a week. Details are available at
> https://www.centos.org/community/calendar/#Karanbir_Singh_Office_Hours ,
> please feel free to stop by and say hi. We welcome comments and
> questions around pretty much anything / everything relevant to the
> CentOS community.
>
> enjoy!
>
>
> - -- 
> Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project
> +44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS
> GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS-announce mailing list
> CentOS-announce at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
>
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iEYEARECAAYFAlZ1O7EACgkQnVkHo1a+xU4wTACfXYWbQc6HeHBgZGeRWB5CDupw
> sSEAn1uc1Tw2Zkn/AoLSnh8ad9c4cugv
> =V31D
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> _______________________________________________
> Arm-dev mailing list
> Arm-dev at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
>