[Arm-dev] Centos on rpi4

Tue Jun 2 18:32:08 UTC 2020
R C <cjvijf at gmail.com>

Oh yeah,  definitely,  I see Pablo's name here all the time.


On 6/2/20 12:29 PM, mark wrote:
> RE: [Arm-dev] Centos on rpi4
>
> Just for the appreciation for all the work Pablo did (we make much use 
> of it);
>
>
> Downloaded the image, flashed it and boot up right away..
>
>
>
> _OT_
>
>
> As for Centos 8 I'll took the liberty to copy-cat and create an 
> aarch64 development-image for the RPI4
>
> Note: it has no swap on disk but a zram implementation..
>
>
> development image:
>
> https://github.com/markVnl/centos-sbc-tools/releases
>
> ( I run libvirt on it ot test aarch64 and armhfp packages in VM's on 
> it and it did not let me down once...)
>
>
> kernel (re)build on Copr:
>
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/markvnl/Raspberry_PI4/packages/
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>
>
> Awating a 5.x kernel with somewhat decent RPI 4 support i'v prepared 
> aarch64 U-boot build with a <EFI/centos> patch
>
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/markvnl/epel-8-aarch64_SBC-tools/packages/
>
>
> grtz, Mark
>
>
>     -----Original message-----
>     *From:* R C <cjvijf at gmail.com>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, June 2, 2020 7:48 PM
>     *To:* Pablo Sebastián Greco <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar>;
>     Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware <arm-dev at centos.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Arm-dev] Centos on rpi4
>
>     On 6/2/20 11:36 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>     >
>     > On 2/6/20 13:52, R C wrote:
>     >> Hello,
>     >>
>     >> I am trying to get Centos going on an RPI4 with 4GB;
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> so far I tried to use:
>     >>
>     >> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2003-sda.raw.xz
>     >>
>     >>  (which does seem to do much of anything at all, black screen)
>     >>
>     >>
>     > This is the image I use normally for my work on my rpi4-4G without any 
>     > issues (32bit-lpae memory)
>
>
>     Ok,  I'll try that again.  (I have no idea what lpae memory is, I just
>     bought an rpi4 with 4gb)
>
>
>     >> and:
>     >>
>     >> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz:
>     >>
>     >> which seems to display the "rainbow screen",  but that's about i.
>     > That's expected not to work on rpi-4, so that's ok
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Is there a different Centos image that would work  Or is there some 
>     >> setting that's needed?
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> thanks,
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Ron
>     >>
>     >>
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