[Arm-dev] Raspberry Pi 3 and Aarch64 image?

[Karanbir Singh]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 27/07/16 00:23, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/26/2016 05:18 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 26/07/16 22:08, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>> I'm having trouble finding an Aarch64 image for a Raspberry Pi
>>> 3. The Raspberry Pi 3 was selected as a test device because
>>> its ARMv8.
>> 
>>> Does Cent have any Aarch64 images for the Model 3?
>> 
>> There is no ARMv8 support for the raspberry pi3 as far as I
>> know, there are some efforts to try and get its bootloader (?)
>> and display (?) which are 32bit only, mapped in - but most of
>> those efforts seem to have stalled. My info might be a bit dated
>> now, but I've not seen much change in that space since May this
>> year.
>> 
>> The RaspberryPi foundation folks have publicly stated that while
>> they wont stop community doing the engineering to get the work
>> done to boot a 64bit distro, they are not going to support the
>> effort themselves nor actually participate in anyway.
> 
> It seems the community has gotten some work done to make this
> happen,

Where is this work happening ? I cant seem to find any mention beyond
'the 32bit firmware cant boot a 64bit kernel, so there needs to be
some magic in the kernel to switch, and noone is keen on doing that
work' ( this is across many threads on the rpi site itself. Their own
github issues seem to also be stalled with no real activity there.

> however we won't be able to support it out of the box, because of
> the uefi requirement anaconda has. Our best hope of support on the
> rpi3 will be a disk image similar to the instructions written by
> Uli here ->

that should be fine, its how we ship the present rpi3 content, as a
userland image that boots directly.

regards

- -- 
Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project
+44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS
GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXmJ57AAoJEI3Oi2Mx7xbtktsIAM5/gTTMgKtXVFPRkqTv/UYY
Wj+tJCQ1HViaPhlXwMfVq6I5NNiamoYNQOX1hnxGVK2NKW8lBWGhbQ4dYzKhVqbX
28ep8b8ZcbLfPh9z9PNX6ys/wD6IIUaiRFzTCBc4WRwYMlGTc9ZnobKrmjt0tncQ
LBpNchOCV6QIHI57VuJx1hvrvD3++W6QQmeK4iBayJ1q2alvxsoVA96wd5kqRyI6
BaAUo2BS4ceLDOxqcPWRnYW3XWRoKECAPdSclWB0TgbLOFAs0u53YEXkoF2Kzz+1
HyjNOITCJgvfEq/NCcgW8WhrhM7nCbSx2OZhL8q2iYmkxWxc+tyxAC3KeNd7XiE=
=TCUA
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----