So I didn't really want to create a whole new thread for this issue, so i'm updating this post, my previous issues, for the most part, are either taken care of or not really an issue anymore. Soo....
Whenever I try to upgrade with `pacman -Syu` i get the following error:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libffi.so=7-32", a dependency of "glib2"')
I tried searching the packages and I see that there is a libffi however it provides : libffi.so=8-32 rather than libffi.so=7-32, is there anyway I can force glib2 to accept the newer package?
pacman -Q libffi --> libffi 3.4.2-4 - so I have some version of it...
when I run makepkg I get : ==> ERROR: libffi is not available for the 'armv7h' architecture.
so not sure whats going on
By the way this is a required dependency of glib2 so I kinda need it don't I?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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PREVIOUS POST (left here for archival reasons):
Hey so I spent my weekend trying to get different versions of arch onto my raspberry pi 3 (have a 4 coming in that I also plan to use arch on as well) however I have 2 issues...
The first is I can't get UART serial to work on pins 14 & 15, I spent way too much time googling/looking and have given up and am asking for help as I have run out of other options/ideas.. I'm getting garbage using this adapter :https://ftdichip.com/products/us232r-500/ (which uses a FTDI-FT232R chip) when using `enable_uart=1`, `dtoverlay=pi3-miniuart-bt` ,`dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt` or variations of a combination of those... any ideas/help? Parameters used -baud=115200 / 8 data bits / 1 stop bit / no parity / no control flow /-/ tried PuTTY and Tabby same results /-/ loopback tests show transceiver is working correctly.
Also, from my reading v8 & v7 should work on the raspberry pi 3 , however only ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest works, I can't get the pi to boot using ArchLinuxARM-rpi-2-latest, or ArchLinuxARM-rpi-aarch64-latest (I added the neccessary dtb, config.txt, cmdline.txt, overlays folder and even tried adding 2 missing elf and start files that are in ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest but not ArchLinuxARM-rpi-aarch64-latest). Every time I try to use anything but v6 the furthest I get is the rainbow output on HDMI (for ArchLinuxARM-rpi-aarch64-latest that is) no further info I can gather, unless someone has a way to get some type of debug info. I guess it really doesn't make a difference but maybe someone has some words of wisdom for me?
EDIT: uart was voltage level issue so that's been taken care of