On Friday, 2024-12-20 at 11:49:04 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
Our highlight for this release is the first time ever support of 64-bit ARM systems (AKA arm64).
Given that there are so many systems out there that feature an ARM64-compatible CPU, I would like to ask for a new FAQ entry describing the prerequesites for booting the ARM64 ISO.
E.g. can a Raspberry Pi boot that ISO? How? I have a NanoPi R4S which has Cortex A72 and A53 cores. Those cores have the Armv8-A architecture. It boots from a microSD card using uBoot. *But!* it has no video output.
For fun I connected my USB-TTL adapter to see the serial console. When I applied power, I did not even get any output from the built-in firmware. So it didn't even ignore the ISO image ;-)
While this is an obvious example that one can *expect* not to work, I believe there will be boundary cases with hardware that *has* video but still does not boot.
I would appreciate if you collected a list of hardware that has been tried with GRML ARM64. Pretty please?
Thank you for the magnificent work creating and maintaining GRML. It helped me in so many cases since 2006. Almost 20 years!
Lupe Christoph