ARM hardware compatibility
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Hi to everyone!
As in this previous release annoucement, https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-110-aramo-release-announcement, where can I read about the 32bit and 64bit ARM hardware compatibility of Trisquel GNU/Linux?
Well, Avron has recently related some bad experiences: https://trisquel.info/forum/there-stable-trisquel-image-rockpro64
Maybe you will have more chance. Here is an ISO of Trisquel 12 for 64-bit ARM (probably what you have): https://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/trisquel-netinst_12.0_arm64.iso
I couldn't load linux-libre on rockpro64 to be honest.
Although, I don't know which kernel is the minimum to get it working. i was using linux-libre and linux-libre-lts however this was a few years ago, so maybe it works now.
ARM64 and PPC64EL has been proved to work on full servers, no Single Board Computer (SBC) has reported support yet.
arielenter has one (if not the only one) arm64 Chromebook running Trisquel 12, he opened a couple of topics about it, even a wiki:
Forum:
- https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-samsung-chromebook-v1-kevin-support-group
- https://trisquel.info/en/forum/samsung-chromebook-v1-kevin-update
Wiki:
- https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/arm64-chromebooks-trisquel-installation
So it's not impossible, but SBC has no easy/simple, on some cases even possible, tutorial to install, but if you make it possible like Ariel, let us know :)
Trisque 13 development has started, so for a while the time spent on SBC won't be much, any help from experienced users and developers is welcome.
Four years ago, someone wrote a thing about all of the difficulty they went through in getting Gentoo working on the Rock 64. One would hope that things have improved since then like hopefully the device tree patch has made its way into the kernel by now. It may provide some kind of idea about the effort involved.