[Arm-dev] Work in progress ARM v7 port

[Fabian Arrotin]

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On 18/02/15 16:08, 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.
> 
> Gordan

<personal interest> that would be cool to see centos 7 working on
raspi / arvm5tel :  I have two of those and having those running c7
would be interesting :-) </personal interest>

Gordan : have you used f19 or something else to bootstrap the armv5tel
build ? I see packages on your ftp site for el5, but no image that can
be used on my side as a start.

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Fabian Arrotin
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