[Arm-dev] CentosArm Kernel

[OM Ugarcina]

Hello Guys,

I have a question on the roadmap for the CentosArm kernel . One of the
reasons why people love Centos is the fact that it enjoys a longer support
cycle than other distributions , which force the user to upgrade the whole
OS every 6 months . But at the same time Centos backports important fixes ,
and improvements to the kernel to keep it up to date . So having a long
term OS combined with kernel that is maintained is a very good reason for
using Centos .

So I wanted to ask : What is the strategy for the arm kernels , is there
going to be an active program to maintain the arm kernel ? I know that the
regular Centos kernel is not viable for arm , it lacks a lot of support for
arm hardware . We need a more modern version that is still long term
supported but newer . My suggestion would be to take kernel 4.4 as the
Centos arm main kernel . It has support for arm basic hw , and it is
compatible with driver source code that is needed to be added for boards
such as bananapi R1 (or also known as Lamobo R1) .

I my self am using Fedora's 4.4 kernels made for the fc22 line , but am
expecting soon for that to disappear once fc24 comes out . And then no more
kernel updates from fedora .

Best Regards
Milorad
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