[Arm-dev] Work in progress ARM v7 port

[Karanbir Singh]

On 02/18/2015 03:08 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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.

Welcome to CentOS Linux on ARM :)

At the moment, the v5 work you guys are doing likely complements the v7
focus were going to try and deliver on from the project side itself.



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