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 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
