[Arm-dev] Changes for the next armhfp release/images

[Uli Middelberg]

Am 26.03.18 um 15:36 schrieb Fabian Arrotin:
> Hi list,
>
> Time permitting, in the last days/weeks, we worked with Pablo (thanks
> again) to catch up with some things in the CentOS armhfp land.
> So we'd like to discuss some of the changes we'll probably implement for
> the next 7.5.18xx release (we still don't know when that will happen
> though) :
>
> # images :
>   - we'll switch from our current rbf scripts to appliance-creator, and
> we'll host the used kickstart files so that everybody can also respin
> various images or variants
>   - as we now have Gnome/KDE  working correctly and all built, we'll
> probably start building such images (like for Fedora)
>   - selinux context is now good so doesn't need the "touch /.autorelabel
> && systemctl reboot" to then switch to enforcing mode
>   - one "Generic" image to rule them all ! Idea is to not build/test for
> boards like cubietruck/bananapi/etc, as it's all supported upstream, but
> only one generic image/variant (like minimal or gnome) and just adapt
> the uboot bootloader. The only exception though will be for raspberrypi
> (2 and 3 ) : while the Generic image will work (tested already) with
> upstream kernel, we'll still offer a variant using the rpi foundation
> kernel, as we did in the past, as that will ensure that such users will
> also continue to get kernel updates as they get those right now

Do you have plans to provide a generic armhfp root filesystem like Jim 
does for aarch64, e.g. [1]?

[1] http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/aarch64/CentOS-7-aarch64-rootfs-7.4.1708.tar.xz
Cheers Uli

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