[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS-7 disk images for AArch64 Platforms

Thu May 14 21:19:21 UTC 2015
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 5/14/2015 2:12 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> You are correct, the Pi is not armv8.
>
> This is for larger devices ... although, there are now a some armv8
> embedded devices too.
>
> We SHOULD also have an armv7hl branch at some point too (we have just
> really started working on that) ... and I think that will run on the
> raspberry pi2 when done (though not the original).
>
> We are trying for large data center devices not cell phones:)


I would assume there's more than JUST the CPU instruction set 
architecture at play here... system boot firmware, and IO device 
controller support must play a part in this?



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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz