Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-12 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:34:32AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Some of them are hugely true: at the time when the first RPi was released, it > was released as ARM v6 with hardware floating point. Almost all Linux > distributions at that point had agreed on architectures having software floa

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-12 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Sat, 2021-06-12 at 06:17 +, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 7:25 AM Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > > Many criticisms of the RPi that were true 5 years ago no longer > > hold. > > Some of them are still true; the weird GPU-starts-CPU SoC boot > process,

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-11 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 14:35 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > I think the problem isn't on Debian's side, but on the side of the > Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF). But if it is, why is e.g. installing Ubuntu so much easier (as opposed to amd64 where it is about the same) and so much better documented

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-11 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 10:32 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > Ask Raspberry/Pi vendor then. Make them work on getting support for > their product into mainline, make use of available standards during > design of their next products. Ist this criticism fair? I am running on my aarch64 RPi4 curr

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-11 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Thu, 2021-06-10 at 23:54 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > I'm guessing there's much requests wrt SBCs as that is for many > people their > first experience with ARM systems (besides phones). It is/was for me. > And they make for (potentially) great fits for systems that need to > be on 24/7,

Vanilla arm64 bullseye and vcgencmd / Install docs

2021-05-28 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hi, I am very very happy with my RPi4 running Bullseye aarch64. While the Raspberry Pi has right from the beginning been a very pleasant device to work with, since the vanilla Debian port, the solid USB boot, 64bit and enough RAM, to me it is more or less indistinguishable from any other Debian box

Re: Unclean (USB) filesystem on reboot of arm64 8GB RPi4 UEFI

2021-04-02 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Am 02.04.2021 um 04:43 schrieb Ryutaroh Matsumoto: To access USB devices on RPi4B, initramfs must load reset_raspberrypi.ko, as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=977694 I hope it fixes your problem. Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto Thanks a lot, Ryutaroh, it indeed did fix my

Unclean (USB) filesystem on reboot of arm64 8GB RPi4 UEFI

2021-04-01 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hi everybody in Debian ARM-land, I am currently fighting with a problem rebooting my vanilla Debian Raspberry Pi and I am hoping for suggestions on how to solve or at least pinpoint the problem to file a sensible bug report. I am booting my new Pi 4 from UEFI, basically my setup is like https://

Re: The state of Arm64 on Raspberry Pi (and its Documentation

2020-03-31 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 07:37:03PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > For now I use the raspbian kernel in debian, but as you say it is 32 and I > am not into the details, so thank you for the hints. I am probably not telling news, but there is a 64bit kernel in Raspbian. You just have to boot the kernel8.i

Re: The state of Arm64 on Raspberry Pi (and its Documentation

2020-03-31 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hi Pete! On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 05:08:35PM +0100, Pete Batard wrote: > Not from Debian (AFAIK) but, for the Pi 3, you will find some posts on the > Raspberry Pi forums: > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=249449&sid=beb9a5a5fc456deef7c00f1ffc0be1df > as well as a correspond

The state of Arm64 on Raspberry Pi (and its Documentation

2020-03-31 Thread Ralph Aichinger
sane Debian based OS. But I think using vanilla Debian on the Pi should be a lot easier than it is now. Thanks in advance, Ralph Aichinger -- -

Solved/my fault (was: Re: Sheevaplug installs fine, kernel hangs on first boot)

2011-01-21 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 16:50 +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > Hello! > > I followed Michael's instructions here: > > http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html > > for installing on the sheevaplug, using squeeze. Sorry for the inconvenience. Seems

Sheevaplug installs fine, kernel hangs on first boot

2011-01-21 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hello! I followed Michael's instructions here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html for installing on the sheevaplug, using squeeze. Everything works fine during install (just like any other Debian system), but when the installer tells me to remove installation media (I