[CentOS] RasPi 3.x and RH-based Distro (Slightly OT)

Tue Mar 1 17:03:06 UTC 2016
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 02/29/2016 01:00 PM, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 06:26:24PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 
>> join the arm-dev list ( https://lists.centos.org )  CentOS has a great
>> story across the entire ARMv7 and v8 platform, with every major vendor
>> in the ARM 64bit platform working with us. We say the rpi3 release this
>> morning and are going to work on a bringup to match our rpi2 images.
>> However, we will also be doing a 64bit image, based on CentOS Linux
>> 7/aarch64 release
> 
> FWIW, this is what was posted to the Fedora's ARM list about supporting
> the Pi3 in Fedora by Peter Robinson:
> 
>   No, not currently, and certainly won't be in Fedora 24 unless someone
>   contributes a lot of stuff very quickly.
> 
>   Why? There's no source (yet) for the new SoC, it's not upstream and
>   won't be until at least 4.7 (it has to be queued for inclusion by rc4
>   of the previous release to land in the next release) it supports a
>   boot process that is nothing like what we currently support for
>   aarch64 so it would need significant work for aarch64 in Fedora, and
>   the wifi firmware (looks similar issues that people have with Apple
>   Mac wifi) isn't currently in linux-firmware so it's not (as far as I'm
>   aware) currently able to be distributed as part of Fedora.
> 
> 

Right ... what we have now is the 32 bit version.  We have not tried to
do anything with aarch64 on that device yet.

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