[Arm-dev] Centos aarch64 on Raspberry PI 3

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Paul R. Ganci <ganci at nurdog.com> wrote:
> I received a Raspberry PI 3 for Christmas with which I am playing. I would
> like to install the aarch64 CentOS 1611. However I am finding very limited
> information on the web as how to go about doing that. Can somebody get me
> started on what I need to do in order to install CentOS 1611? Some initial
> questions.
>
> 1.) Can the aarch64 distribution even be installed on a Raspberry PI 3?
>
> 2.) If the answer to question 1 is yes, can somebody give me some
> instructions on how to proceed? Links to any quick start or installation
> guides would be appreciated.
>
> 3.) I have not been able to get X windows to start with the armv7hl CentOS
> version already installed. Will Gnome run on Raspberry PI 3 or is some other
> desktop graphics suggested?
>
> Thank you for your help getting started.

+1.

I was kind of waiting for the RPI3 to be discussed in "Release for
CentOS 7.3.1611 on ARM64/AArch64",
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/2017-January/002521.html.

Jeff