[Arm-dev] Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

[Marc Balmer]

Hi Fabian

> Am 16.03.2018 um 13:41 schrieb Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>:
> 
> On 16/03/18 13:32, Marc Balmer wrote:
>> Good day
>> 
>> Here's a report of using CentOS 7 minimal
>> from http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/ on a Raspberry Pi 3
>> Model B+.  tl;dr: I't does not boot.
>> 
>> So I just got a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+.  I prepared an MiniSD card on a
>> Raspberry Pi 3 (the previous) model and tried to boot the RPI B+ from
>> that.  But it won't boot, the screen just shows the nice color spectrum.
>> 
>> If you have any hints or ideas, please let me know...
>> 
>> . mb
>> 
> 
> Hi, thanks a lot for the report : I don't have (yet) rpi3 B+ to test
> this , unfortunately , but :
> 
> What I've already done (built yesterday) :
> - rebased firmware to newer version
> - rebased kernel to 4.9.80
> 
> All that is actually available, but unsigned, so if you want to give it
> a try, that would be useful :
> 
> Can you boot that sdcard  on a rpi2/rpi3 device ? and then update ? Then
> test booting on the rpi3b+ ?
> 
> Pointing a .repo file to
> https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/arm-kernels/raspberrypi2/ should
> bring you to 4.8.80 kernel and updated firmware
> Raw pkgs are there :
> https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/arm-kernels/raspberrypi2/20180315125718/4.9.80-v7.1.el7.armhfp/
> 
> Worth noting that it seems rpi foundation bumped kernel to 4.14.x but
> continue to maintain the 4.9 lts branch, as last commits show backports
> for rpi3b model :
> 
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/eb7b3df1fd5dfa4645da2986ffb6d9ca5ccdebda
> 
> That's the one that was used to build the 4.9.80 pkg mentioned above.
> 
> Let us know how that works on your side (or not)


I did as you said and I can confirm that this boots.  Just ping me if you want me to test anything.  Is there an IRC channel for CentOS on ARM?

Thanks for you help!

- Marc