On 07/27/2016 06:43 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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. Some of it went into u-boot's upstream already -> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-April/250315.html And also kraxel has fedora arm64 images now -> https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2016/04/fedora-on-raspberry-pi-updates/ -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77