[Arm-dev] Building CentOS7 userland for ARM64 server boards

[Jim Perrin]

On 06/29/2017 09:58 AM, Scott Branden wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Yes, we wish to add support for new (currently CentOS unsupported) Arm64
> SoCs.
> 
> Currently we have a Yocto based distribution that builds ATF (with
> UEFI), Kernel+DTBs, Host tools+utilities (such as signing+flashing type
> tools), RootFS, and RPMs.
> 
> I took the prebuilt CentOS Rootfs and it boots on our platform to the
> shell.  So that is a great start.  But we use a different kernel
> versions so I was thinking we need to rebuild against our kernel headers
> to ensure 100% API compatibility.  Or, do you think that is not
> necessary (we are working on 4.12 kernel right now)?
> 

I'd like to work with you to support the SoC in the distribution itself.
If all the required kernel changes are upstream in the mainline linux
kernel, we should be able to make this happen reasonably easily.


I'm happy to work through this with you off-list, or setup a call where
we can talk over requirements etc.



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