Thanks Kaj
It appears that the Centos version is only 32bit and only works with CLI at the moment. Is that the same with EL7 ? 

 
 
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> From:Kaj Niemi <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday 18th November 2017 2:15
> To: Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: SL7.4 for ARM ?
> 
> For what it's worth Bluetooth stack does not work out of the box on EL7 armhfp architecture and RPi3. One needs:
> 
> 1. patch bluez-utils a bit since hciattach attempts to get the files from the wrong directory
> 2. firmware for brcm 43430 isn't supplied with EL7, I had to get it from another source
> 3. udev doesn't know to check the presence of 43430 so one needs to make a rule for that, too
> 
> Other than that, ethernet, wifi and everything else I've tested works quite well. I haven't tried with the serial ports in 232.
>