Daniel

On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 14:06 Daniel Thompson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 01:16:08PM +0100, David Rusling wrote:
> > [4] There's not yet a standard 64 bit aarch64 release of Debian buster
> > (9).   That's terrible progress.   I managed to build my own but not
> > without a lot of faffing about.
>
> Is the real problem:
>
> a) That there is no AArch64 Debian buster rootfs image.
>
> b) That the existing AArch64 Debian buster *installer* images doesn't
>    boot out of the box.
>
> Personally my own answer has always been b) and, to be honest, that's
> what got me interested in EBBR in the first place. EBBR (admitedly
> coupled with upstreamed hardware enablement for both bootloader and
> kernel) gets us much closer to that.
>
>
>
I could only find a buster image via h
https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi3ttps://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi3 and
that didn't work out of the box for RPi 3b+.  I'll chat with Steve et al
and see what's missing / happening.



> > [5] Yocto / OE does not build natively arm on arm (as well as taking a
> very
> > long time on a RPi 3)
>
> Is this the "how to bootstrap go without using the host go compiler"
> problem or something else?
>
>
The problem appears to be not cross building as I see 'internal' issues.
I'll build on x86 and see where the differences are, but I suspect that
this is an arm-on-arm problem.


>
> > I should take my notes and write this 'folklore' up, but it is a mess
> > compared to pretty much any Intel board.  The shame is that the Raspberry
> > Pi is probably the best supported aarch64 device that there is...
>
> Must... resist... commenting...
>
>
Well done

David

>
> Daniel.
>
> --
David A Rusling
CTO, Linaro
https://linaro.org
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