Finally got the Raspberry Pi 2, and installed Fedora 21 (armv7hl) with no problems..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Temporarily used object code 3.18.7-v7+ from the repository, and then tested kernel compile options..<\/p>\n
The system seems (so far..) to be relatively sluggish compared to my other quad-core armv7 systems..\u00a0\u00a0 Compiling on the Pi 2 itself seemed relatively slow, but at least it was a realistic option..!<\/p>\n
I got the latest (3.19.0) kernel from https:\/\/github.com\/raspberrypi\/linux\/tree\/rpi-3.19.y<\/a><\/p>\n Compiling the kernel + device tree was somewhat different from the Classic armv6 Pi…\u00a0\u00a0 As usual, there are other ways of doing this, but this works, for me..<\/p>\n First time, run # make bcm2709_defconfig<\/strong><\/span> to get correct Pi 2 config.. One thing to remember is that kernel7.img<\/strong> is just a copy<\/span> of arch\/arm\/boot\/Image<\/strong>, and there is no longer a requirement for tools\/imagetool-uncompressed.py<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to call the kernel7.img file something else, just put a kernel=xxxxxx<\/em> parameter in \/boot\/config.txt<\/strong><\/p>\n If all goes well, you should see a clean boot…<\/p>\n I did get the kernel compile to crash gcc at one point, but when I re-ran it, all was well..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did check the cpu temperature while compiling, and it was around 41C..<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 February 18, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally got the Raspberry Pi 2, and installed Fedora 21 (armv7hl) with no problems..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Temporarily used object code 3.18.7-v7+ from the repository, and then tested kernel compile options.. The system seems (so far..) to be relatively sluggish compared to my other quad-core armv7 systems..\u00a0\u00a0 Compiling on the Pi 2 itself seemed relatively slow, but at least it …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,12,14,16,21],"tags":[1017,576,1016,1005,313,1175,898],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-htc","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-raspberry-pi","tag-3-19-0","tag-armv7","tag-fedora-21","tag-kernel-compile","tag-raspberry-pi-2","tag-success","tag-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nCreate config from (running) \/proc\/config.gz<\/em><\/p>\nmake xconfig <\/strong> (if necessary..)\r\nmake<\/strong>\r\nmake modules_install<\/strong>\r\nmake firmware_install<\/strong>\r\ncp System.map \/boot<\/strong>\r\ncp arch\/arm\/boot\/dts\/bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb \/boot<\/strong>\r\nrm -f \/boot\/kernel7.img.old<\/strong>\r\nmv \/boot\/kernel7.img \/boot\/kernel7.img.old<\/strong> (save the old\/good kernel, just in case..)\r\ncp arch\/arm\/boot\/Image \/boot\/kernel7.img<\/strong><\/pre>\n
$ uname -a<\/strong>\r\nLinux rgpi2 3.19.0-v7 #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 18 19:31:57 PST 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/pre>\n