[Arm-dev] Pine64 Support

[Lamar Owen]

On 06/24/2016 10:41 AM, Uli Middelberg wrote:
> It would be great to have an 'official' archive containing the rootfs
> contents, created/updated by the automated build chain. Other Linux
> distributions like Ubuntu or Arch offer this kind of service as well.
+1.  CentOS 7 has been rock solid on my testing ODroid C2, even with 
some kernel upgrades from HardKernel.  Note though that C7's gcc will 
not build the HardKernel sources successfully, as the Linaro 4.9.x gcc 
is the 'standard' gcc for them.  So I keep a stock Ubuntu image around 
and boot it occasionally on my dev C2 to get the newest kernel items, 
and I have built up a process (not yet automated) for upgrading an SD 
card in my C7 laptop using the Ubuntu image along with the C7 rootfs as 
on the booting SD.  It's dead-simple, really, and involves replacing the 
kernel files on the FAT boot partition and then the includes and modules 
from the Ubuntu rootfs.

I'd like to do a native build, but I just haven't had the time to build 
an aarch64 rpm of the linaro 4.9.x toolchain. (It's available for x86_64 
as a cross-compiler).