On 09/29/2017 05:35 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote: > Hi, > > As for the news, unmodified CentOS-7-aarch64 downloaded from > http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/aarch64/ > works great on Marvell Armada 8040 MacchiatoBin (http://macchiatobin.net/). > > You can see vmlinuz-4.11.0-22.el7a.aarch64 bootlog here: > https://pastebin.com/kuDQRzDV > Oh very nice! > All interfaces that are supported in the mainline linux kernel (with > ACPI) work fine with Centos image as well. However as there's an > effort to add ACPI support to remaining interfaces (e.g. network or > sd/mmc controllers), we would like backport upstream patches to your > tree. Hence I have a couple of questions in addition to what can be > found in https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64/Contributions: > > 1. Are the Centos kernel sources accessible in some kind of public repository? > Yes. You can find the repository details at https://git.centos.org/summary/?r=sig-altarch/kernel in the sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch. We don't store the larger tarballs in git though, so it may help for you to look at https://wiki.centos.org/Sources/ to see how to interact with our look-aside repository. > 2. When sending patches to arm-dev, do you require original commit log > and URL to adequate patch in the kernel.org? > Yes. > 3. Is patch existence in linux-next sufficient for you to accept it? > Yes. > 4. I imagine proceeding in two steps - align drivers between v4.11 and > mainline first and later add (still being developed) ACPI support > patches once they are ready and merged upstream. Would it be ok for > you? > As long as you're not disabling existing support in the kernel patches (You can't turn acpi off, for example) and the patches are specific to your hardware, that sounds fine. > 5. Do you have some kind of merge windows/release cycles to follow, > when upstreaming patches? > No, only when building updated install media. > Given current quality of Centos support for new family of ARM64 SoCs, > how about mentioning Armada 7k/8k family in 'Supported Hardware' > section on https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64 I can add it as developmental support while we get the network pieces and acpi sorted out. Will that work for you? -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77