[Arm-dev] Work in progress ARM v7 port

[Gordan Bobic]

On 2015-02-18 14:57, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 17/02/15 20:51, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> On 2015-02-17 18:48, Howard Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> As a long-time Red Hat family distribution user, I've been interested
>>> in a CentOS build for ARM since the release of the originally
>>> Raspberry Pi.  However, it's only with the release of RHEL 7 that a
>>> source code base that largely works on ARM has been available to
>>> CentOS [1].
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> [1] RHEL6's Fedora 12/13-derived codebase largely predates the Fedora
>>> ARM effort, whereas the Fedora 19 base of RHEL 7 had an actively
>>> maintained ARM secondary architecture; fixes to Fedora packages for
>>> ARM were incorporated into Fedora proper, and RHEL 7 inherited these
>>> fixes.
>> 
>> Have you heard of RedSleeve? We've had an EL6 build for
>> armv5tel for years now. All the patches that were required are on
>> the wiki.
> 
> As I've said to you repeatedly over many years, you are welcome to come
> join the CentOS effort, on various ARM platforms.

I'm here, aren't I? All the heavy lifting for EL6 armv5tel and most of
it for EL7 has been done and all the patches have always been published.

Gordan