On 07/12/2020 23:23, Holger Wansing wrote: > Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiya...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've tried debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-arm64-netinst.iso on a QEMU VM, the >> gtk installer refused to run with less than 578MiB (falling back to >> newt). I could successfully go through the rest of the gtk installer >> with that much (English, priority=low), though I'm not sure if that's >> enough for everything. > > Yes, we had reports in the past, where it failed in a later installation > step (I think it was partitioning). So I guess, we could go with something > like 640MB as the minimum setting (including some reserve).
Probably. (I don't really know much about measuring RAM requirements.) >> Probably not tested enough to call it stable, but functionality-wise >> I think almost everything is in place. It's likely that the graphics >> won't work on some devices since their display modules might not be in >> the fb-modules udeb. > > Hmm, that smells like some potential for problems :-) > Maybe we could call it a "preview", if "experimentell" is a bit harsh? Sounds OK to me. Things should hopefully get better as more people test on their devices and report in. :) >> In the GRUB menu it shows "Install" in the first place and "Graphical >> Install" in the second, so I think the character-based is the default >> for now. > > Ok, that's important info. I will change the paragraph accordingly. > (BTW: this fact could second the "preview"/"experimentell" state from above, > in the eyes of the users... ?) I think that's more related to the use-cases of the devices. AFAICT, most people are used to connecting to arm* devices over serial/ssh, but that's slowly changing as more arm64 laptops (or maybe even desktops?) get less niche.
