I'll be looking forward to that, Gordan! Thanks.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2015-06-22 08:17, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 22 June, 2015 00:46 CEST, Tracy Reed <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 04:56:56PM PDT, Gordan Bobic spake thusly:
>>> > If you mean the website - plans, yes. But the priority of that is below
>>> > things like getting RSEL7 released.
>>>
>>> Wow...I haven't checked in on Redsleeves in many months and thought
>>> perhaps the
>>> project had called it quits after RHEL6. I've installed Fedora 20 from
>>> http://www.odroid.in/fedora-20/ on my latest Odroid purchases (we use
>>> them for
>>> various general utility purposes) because even though Fedora 20 is out
>>> of date
>>> it is fresher than RSEL6 for the most part. But I really should get back
>>> to
>>> using a long term supported distro like RSEL.
>>>
>>> If anyone is seriously interested in collaborating on getting good
>>> installation
>>> instructions written up and posted to the wiki for getting RSEL7 onto the
>>> Odroid U2/U3 I would be happy to send you a board to keep. I've got some
>>> rough
>>> instructions we wrote up ages ago for RSEL6 which we, regrettably, never
>>> ended
>>> up putting on the wiki because they need significant cleanup and
>>> refinement.
>>>
>>
>> Actually RSEL7 was completely build on an U3 :)
>> my initial write-up is here:
>> https://wiki.redsleeve.org/index.php/RedSleeve_Linux_7
>>
>> To get it working on an U3, it is basically as easy as downloading the
>> image from
>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/el7/rootfs/ ,
>> dd it to an SD-card and go.
>>
>> I do not have an U2, so that's for now untested. I always assumed that
>> the kernel should be similar. Maybe the U3 image works on an U2.
>>
>> Let me know if it works on an U2, so we can add it to the list of
>> tested devices.
>>
>
> Not strictly relating to that specific image, but I made my own based on
> it,
> and RSEL7 works beautifully on the Samsung Chromebook. I've had no end of
> issues getting the Chromebook specific kernel to cooperate (systemd did
> away with userspace firmware blob loading helpers, so the kernel had to
> do everything on its own), but once I got that sorted, the userspace
> part never skipped a beat. I even have it running with rootfs on
> zfs-fuse, with a dracut generated initramfs, and with stage2 uboot
> loader. :)
>
> I'll put together an image and a howto on the wiki when time permits.
>
> Gordan
>
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Ian M Perkins
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