Hi Freek, On 18.10.18 16:45, Freek de Kruijf wrote: > I noticed a number of images/support for Banana Pi systems having an armv7 > type processor architecture. Also using names with sinovoipbpi in the name of > the image. > > This name is also present in information about the Banana Pi M64 of which the > processor architecture is aarch64. There is even an openSUSE Tumbleweed > image, > dating a year back, which runs on this system.
Where did you find that image? Who created it? The Banana Pi M64 seems to be A64 based, so I'm fairly sure from a kernel enablement point of view, we're in good shape. The only thing you might be missing would be the low level firmware bits. The idea openSUSE scenario for that would be if someone in the community did a "firmware installer" that really just writes U-Boot and ATF onto the eMMC. That U-Boot would then run distro boot and provide a workable DT for the platform. With that in place, you could just take the openSUSE installer iso, boot it, and install your system as with any other machine. No need for images. > Will there be support for the Banana Pi M64 with a more recent image? It does > seem very complicated to have such an image available in the ports repository > for aarch64. It's not very complicated to have such an image available. In fact, all it takes is someone who takes the pieces necessary (ATF, U-Boot), makes sure everything's mainline and built in our copies and then sends a submit request to the JeOS package to enable the port. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
