[Arm-dev] kernel armhfp 4.4.26 - feedback wanted !

Mon Oct 24 16:09:13 UTC 2016
Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com>

Will either kernel work on a Banana Pi?

On Oct 24, 2016 6:05 PM, "Fabian Arrotin" <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> With the recent CVE-2016-5195 (aka "Dirty Cow"), we bumped the armhfp
> kernels to the following version : 4.4.26 (both for "generic" and
> rpi2/rpi3)
>
> Before releasing those to mirror.centos.org (and also sign those) we'd
> like some people to test the updated/unsigned kernels (feedback wanted !)
>
> - create the /etc/yum.repos.d/ .repo file pointing to corresponding
> repo, depending on your board :
>   - http://dev.centos.org/centos/7/kernel/armhfp/kernel-generic/
>   - http://dev.centos.org/centos/7/kernel/armhfp/kernel-rpi2/
> as an example, here is how it would look like :
>
> [kernel-generic]
> name=armhfp kernel generic
> baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/7/kernel/armhfp/kernel-generic/
> gpgcheck=0
> enabled=1
>
> or
>
> [kernel-rpi2]
> name=armhfp rpi2 kernel
> baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/7/kernel/armhfp/kernel-rpi2/
> gpgcheck=0
> enabled=1
>
> - now "yum clean all ; yum update"
>
> PS : for rpi2/3, the system will automatically use the updated kernel on
> next reboot
> PS2 : for "generic" (so cubietruck, etc) you still need to :
> - modify /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf to reflect new kernel
> PS3 : depending on the image you're using for cubietruck/bananapi, the
> /boot space is probably just too small, so dracuty will complain about
> not able to probably build the -rescue- initramfs (which isn't needed) :
> just be sure that kernel and initramfs were built before rebooting, and
> you can also remove the undeeded files in /boot :
>  rm uIm* uInit*
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Fabian Arrotin
> The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
> gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab
>
>
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