Linux Distros?

[Amiejay]

Hi All...

Has anyone run a Parallella board with a distro from a family other than Debian or Ubuntu?

I'm hoping for CentOS, or something substantially similar.

Thanks...

Amiejay

[9600]

[tincman]

It appears someone is getting the ball rolling on Arch Linux Arm

Thanks to device trees and the similarity to the Zedboard, the parallella should boot most modern kernels. I recall Fedora being in favor of this route to support a "one kernel for many boards" approach (not sure how far they've come implementing it though).

After that, I assume it's just getting this firmware and buidling the SDK.

Actually, I just remembered this thread , and not sure what [minimal] patches are in Adapteva's repo. But their kernel is new enough and should work with Fedora until things get upstreamed.

[Amiejay]

Thanks 9600 & tincman.

I'll experiment until I get something working, and I'll summarize on the forums.

Amiejay

[adexmont]

what about freeBSD ?

[CIB]

Hopefully arch linux arm will work on the parallella by the time I get my board, I use arch on literally all of my systems(including SoCs) and it just makes life so much simpler.

[9600]

[ticso]

[ZenoArrow]