[CentOS] CentOS on ARM7 (eg Raspberry Pi)

Tue Jun 23 13:00:05 UTC 2015
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 23.06.2015 um 07:09 schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
> On 06/22/2015 11:26 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
>> I saw in the anouncement for the upcoming Boston, MA conference that there
>> will be demos of CentOS on an ARM7 system. I am wondering: does this mean that
>> there is somewhere out there a build of some version of CentOS that might run
>> on a Raspberry Pi (which has an ARM7 processor)?
>> 
> 
> The Pi2 is armv7 .. the original pi is armv6.
> 
> There is a pi2 image here:
> 
> http://seven.centos.org/2015/06/another-proof-of-concept-armv7hl-release-this-one-for-the-raspberry-pi2/


side note: just for fun I could do some package install of that armv7hl 
tree on my cell phone device (Jolla with SailfishOS). Albeit 

# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.15-1.5.1.armv7hl

(centos7 glibc is 2.17) the execution of some tools was not a problem (zip etc.).

# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
Processor	: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
processor	: 0
BogoMIPS	: 13.53

processor	: 1
BogoMIPS	: 13.53

Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x51
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x1
CPU part	: 0x04d
CPU revision	: 4

Hardware	: QCT MSM8930 CDP
Revision	: 300000
Serial		: 0000000000000000


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LF