[Arm-dev] CentOS-userland 7 images : call for testers !

Thu Dec 31 13:26:42 UTC 2015
Carl T. Miller <carl at carltm.com>

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
> On 12/31/2015 06:05 AM, Carl T. Miller wrote:
>> Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>>> Can you confirm that it's indeed the rpi1 model ? If so you know now
>>> why it doesn't work.
>> Yes, it is an rpi1.  Are there plans to ever port CentOS Userland
>> to to armv6hl?  Also, would you consider updating the wiki page
>> to make it more clear about which models are supported?  That
>> would save some frustration for people like me who find the page
>> when searching for "centos on rpi".
>
> The Redsleeve project has armv5 support.  Pretty decent group of people.
>
> But the approach taken here precludes the armv5 (and v6) architecture.
> Lots of reasons why, it seems, but this issue was beaten up a lot over
> on the Fedora-arm list years ago and Centos7-arm inherits the Fedora-arm
> work, just like Centos7-x86_64 does the Fedora-x86_64...

Yes, this makes sense now that I know a bit of the history.
For now I'll go back to Redsleeve until if/when I get an
rpi2.  Thanks for the info.

c