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

Mon Mar 26 13:36:31 UTC 2018
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

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

# kernel:
 - we'll rebase to 4.14.x (new upstream LTS version, even if 4.9.x is
still maintained upstream) : that will permit to support more boards
probably (rpi kernel will also get a bump, already built too in testing)

# uboot-tools : already  updated to 2018.03 to also support more boards,
but that will become mandatory as we'll *not* build specific images for
specific board (as the Generic one can be used everywhere, and will only
need the dd if= of=/dev/mmbclk0 for the uboot bootloader


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

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