Yes, sorry, i didn't specify. Arm6 would be a lot more work as its not a normal build for any of the wider red hat community distros, and will likely lose favor as an architecture in time (IMO). - Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 03:28PM -05:00 from Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 >On 13/05/15 18:12, cc35359 gma wrote: >> Fabian, I dont normally travel to these CentOS mailing lists, >> however, I wanted to mention about how I shoved Fedora Rawhide on >> a number of raspberry pis, because i think it would be a highly >> advantageous idea to push out at least a minimal image for the >> raspberry pi with the armv7 release for CentOS 7. If not that, at >> least have a clear path for those wanting it. In my adventures >> with rawhide on the raspis, i've found that the best way to >> handle the hardware is by using the kernel actually distributed >> by the raspi foundation, versus compiling my own. unfortunately >> there are a few broadcom pieces that make it difficult. In order >> to get rawhide running, it was a very simple process. 1. mount the >> fedora image 2. make an sd card paritioned how you want it (i >> dont use swap on sd card, so just 500 mb for /boot, and the rest >> for /. 3. rsync the data to the sd card, except the boot. 4. copy >> the boot directory from the raspi's git with the necessary >> firmware. 5. copy the kernel libraries. 6. i created a dracut >> initrd because i needed to have dm-crypt available because i >> normally encrypt the / partition myself. 7. modify fstab, >> boot.txt, cmdline.txt as necessary 8. boot, and its magic. I >> dont mind repeating the process for a centos image if help is >> needed, perhaps creating a scripted method to generate the images >> for the future would be something to look into. So that was a lot >> of rambling, but long story short, i can assist you with a >> raspberry pi image based on my fedora creations if we feel that >> centos can provide such an image. otherwise once the armv7 >> packages are ready, i can create documentation and a potential >> "offsite" image if there are legal reasons for not supplying it. >> thanks for listening, -David >> >Hi David, >Welcome to the list ! >Let's see what comes out of the armv7hl builds, but I guess that you >meant Raspberry pi2 , as that one is armv7hl, while raspi1 is armv6 >(afaik) >- -- >Fabian Arrotin >The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org >gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) >iEYEARECAAYFAlVTs+sACgkQnVkHo1a+xU6f2QCfYlUikh5REIemM2Mn5jbseaDC >qn0AniwyOHVnX3wLewDMZ5qzqdsil7DN >=qQZh >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >Arm-dev mailing list >Arm-dev at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20150513/b70cda06/attachment-0006.html>