Will tftp boot of CentOS 8 be supported in your first release? On 2020-05-12 2:39 p.m., Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote: > > On 12/5/20 00:43, Brent Kolasinski wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've been looking into things I can do to help with getting CentOS 8 >> AArch64 to run on the Pi4. It appears that the upstream kernel now >> has the proper stuff merged in to support the NIC and eMMC controller. > Nice, we need help testing/fixing things!! >> >> So far 2 approaches are being made: The U-Boot mechanism (looks like >> this is what Ubuntu 20.04 is doing) and the SBBR (ACPI + UEFI) way. >> It looks like a few folks may be loading the SBBR firmware with luck >> on the standard CentOS 8 aarch64 image. > Yes, I'm really looking forward to test this https://github.com/pftf > but no time yet >> >> Could one potentially recompile the SRPM for kernel 5.6 from elrepo >> and drop it in? I found the CentOS8 pi4 aarch64 userland image here: >> https://people.centos.org/pgreco. Has anyone tried getting the SBBR >> firmware to load the stock aarch64 CentOS 8 image without support for >> the eMMC / NIC, to basically bootstrap and compile the SRPM for the >> 5.6 kernel? > I think some of the patches landed for 5.6 and some for 5.7, The > images you pointed are using the kernel from the raspberry pi > foundation (https://github.com/raspberrypi/), what I'm working on > right now is building those kernels, but as a subpackage of our normal > kernel-lts kernel, which would allow people to switch kernels back and > forth, while still keeping the same LTS logic >> >> And finally does anyone know if CentOS will be backporting the Pi4 >> changes to 4.18, or will they be releasing a custom kernel? Could I >> help out with that? > Unless something starts working as a side effect of another backport, > I don't think there's any chance of 4.18 including rpi patches. What > we will be doing is releasing our lts kernels and hopefully > backporting some functionality for it to work until the next lts comes > around. > As soon as I have a kernel that at least boots, I'll post it somewhere > for you to test > > HTH, Pablo > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev -- Ron Wheeler Artifact Software 438-345-3369 rwheeler at artifact-software.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20200512/242618c6/attachment-0005.html>