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