Re: [atomic-devel] ARM builds?

[Josh Berkus <jberkus redhat com>]

On 08/25/2016 05:08 PM, Jason DeTiberus wrote:
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> 
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Jason Brooks <jbrooks redhat com
> <mailto:jbrooks redhat com>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Josh Berkus <jberkus redhat com
>     <mailto:jberkus redhat com>> wrote:
>     > Folks,
>     >
>     > Partly due to lugging my micro-cluster around, I've been getting a lot
>     > of interest in having an ARM port of Atomic Host (ARM64, mostly).  Not
>     > just hobby user interest, but interest from SDN and IoT makers.
>     >
>     > I'm raising this on atomic-devel because I'm not sure if it makes more
>     > sense to start on this via Fedora or CentOS.  Thoughts?
> 
>     I'm into it. I imagine there are parties on the CentOS and Fedora
>     sides who'd be into this too, and any progress on one side will
>     probably benefit the other side.
> 
>     I think docker and kube can both run on ARM, and CentOS and Fedora run
>     on ARM. I don't know about the ostree bits...
> 
> 
> I like the idea, as long as the focus is on arm64. Unfortunately, I
> think arm64 support for raspberry pi's are still a work in progress
> (thought, I think CentOS has been making progress in this area as of late).

Well, enabling the raspberry Pi would be nice, but not really the main
target.  As fun at the Pis are to play with, I'm a lot more concerned
with enabling folks who want to really build systems, and that means
"real" ARM64.


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