Re: The state of Arm64 on Raspberry Pi (and its Documentation
On Tuesday 31 March 2020 12:08:35 Pete Batard wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
>
> On 2020.03.31 15:24, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
[...]
> If you want to help, maybe report that the bug I pointed out above
> affects you too, since, if you can live without SD support, it's
> pretty much the one thing that stands in the way of being able to use
> the vanilla netinst ISOs on the Pi 4.
>
> > I hope the tone of this message does not come across as demanding,
> > pushy or unfriendly, I really do appreciate all your work in
> > the arm port, I have been using arm devices as my servers at
> > home for years now, and I am very grateful that these devices
> > can run with a sane Debian based OS. But I think using
> > vanilla Debian on the Pi should be a lot easier than it is
> > now.
>
> Amen!
>
> We're doing what we can to make that happen on the UEFI side, and I
> believe we are already there in terms of providing a usable means of
> installing and running vanilla Debian on the Pi 4, at least from USB.
>
> The only thing that's missing, really, is for Debian folks to
> integrate the retrofitted Genet network driver, which we submitted 2
> months ago, in the vanilla aarch64 installation images...
>
Tweaks my curiosity. That driver doesn't exist in the raspi armhf build
from raspbian, yet the networking is flawless. I run a host file based
net config, and it Just works.
> Regards,
>
> /Pete
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