On 04/05/2016 12:34 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 04/05/2016 10:04 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: >> I haven't tried, so I'm honestly not sure. You might be able to take the >> disk-image we put out for developers and copy its contents over the >> ubuntu image (you'd want to maintain the ubuntu contents of >> /lib/firmware and /lib/modules as well as the other kernel bits). > I'm assuming that this is > http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.2.1603/isos/aarch64/CentOS-aarch64.img.xz > ; is that correct? Yup, that's the one. There are 4 partitions to it, and to me kpartx is the easiest way to abuse images like this. > I think it's more that the manufacturers are choosing to support a > particular Ubuntu or Debian, and their blobs for hardware support seem > to be more 'accepted' in that ecosystem. But that's just my opinion. > It may be that the supplied hardkernel kernel will work ok with a CentOS > userland; and I may try the 32-bit userland on the hardkernel kernel as > well. > I'd be interested to know if the 32bit userland worked with their kernel. > For what its worth, there is a recent patchset on the arm-kernel list > supporting the C2 (and other Amlogic S905-based boards) in 4.6 > mainline. [1] So it may be that the 4.6 ARM64 kernel can be used as is; > we'll see. Yup. Some of the pieces are going in, so I'm a bit hopeful. > I see I have a bit to learn, but that's ok. That's part of the fun. > I'll report back with what I find in a few days or a week or so. Let me know if you have questions. I'll try to help as much as I can. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77