Sorry for the late reply (kind of overseen this...)
filip wrote:markvnl wrote:I do have a RP3B+ but I didn't run it after I bought RPI 4 4G and run it in "production" (apache, mysql, file backup server for RPI itself, PC and SailfishX + X mainly for browsing my PHP stuff and some general browsing on EOL support TV).
So I intend to test more than CLI
as I really miss Mageia on RPI.
Through the year's kind of learned the hard way getting good results for graphic's is hard due to the (often non-free Proprietary) driver(s) needed for hardware accelerated video output on arm SOC's.
But if you do not aim for the Moon, you never learn to fly
jibz wrote: I believe, now, we can use aarch64 on Rpi3b+ without boot modifications. (decompressing the kernel)
I invite interrested people on #Mageia-arm
The default mageia aarch64 kernel boots a RPI3b+ outoff the box.
IMHO The main question going forwards is choosing the default "final" bootlaoder actually booting the kernel after the early (hardware specific) bootstages. My preference is grub2 because the user experience of a arm system matches x86_64. This can be done with uboot > grub2-efi > kernel
On aarch64 this works like a charm since and kernel 5.<something> there is a patch for armv7 for the loading address of the kernel which honers reserved memory of the remains of the early boot stages. This was particular problematic for RPI's where the (Boardcom) bootcode.bin keeps monitoring some hardware (most notably under-voltage)
A still undocumented image (even more prematurely) for uboot which boots the default kernel on a RPI3+ as described above at the same release tab:
https://github.com/markVnl/Mageia_SBC/releasesUboot which looks for grubaa64.efi in EFI/mageia was build on copr:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs ... /packages/with this specific patch:
https://github.com/markVnl/rpms-uboot-t ... name.patchMost worrying at the moment for me is I cannot figure out howto hook in the kernel-install procedure to copy the devicetree's as commented here:
https://github.com/markVnl/Mageia_SBC/b ... ga.ks#L104As of the #Mageia-arm due to my Dyslexia mail-list do not realy work for me ;
can not see though al the >>> and mis the conversation.
However willing to put some effort in this;
Grtz Mark