[Arm-dev] Work in progress ARM v7 port

Wed Feb 18 16:31:55 UTC 2015
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

On 02/18/2015 11:22 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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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.

I did this for the Cubieboards and Redsleeve 6.  You can see my work at:

http://cdn.opensxce.org/redsleeve/el6/cubieboard2/

I have a number of production systems running with this.

I suspect you can take any F19 remix and use it in a similar method.

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