[Arm-dev] Support for Raspberry Pi 1 ?

Thu Jun 7 13:16:36 UTC 2018
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

On 07/06/18 15:05, Chris Szilagyi wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I have been using CentOS Userland armv7hl for a while now on the
> officially supported boards.  Is there any support at all or any way to
> run it on a Raspberry Pi 1 board?  In particular the Raspberry Pi 1
> model B.  I haven't been able to find any information, and not sure what
> the official answer is.
> 
> Thank you very much for all of the work on this release, it is great stuff!
> 
> -- 
> Chris

hi Chris,

Easy answer : different arm processors :)

Our wiki page
(https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/armhfp) points
back also to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture)
and that page has the info you want/need

But in (really) short summary :
rpi1 = armv6
rpi2 and later = armv7 (aka armhfp)

While I initially tried to recompile some pkgs for armv6, it was really
a nightmare and I had no time to do that (single rpi1 board)

But if you want something really close, that you can run on rpi1, Jacco
(also on the list) did a great job for redsleeve linux (even compiled
for armv5tel in fact) so it will run on the rpi1  ;-)

-- 
Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org
gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab

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