On 12/5/20 22:43, Ron Wheeler via Arm-dev wrote: > Will tftp boot of CentOS 8 be supported in your first release? > > I've used tftp boot with other boards (using uboot) with CentOS8/aarch64, what is not working? > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20200513/08882f7a/attachment-0005.html>