Aarch64 on the Raspberry Pi

[sirspudd]

Hola people,

This Fedora image:

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2016/04/fed ... i-updates/

works very nicely, and drops you into a system which with mild modification runs Qt apps with full OpenGL acceleration. They have some patches which I could not source anywhere else, but which were required to boot the system to a functional state. Clearly the same patches could boot Arch to a usable aarch64 bit userland, I just have no visibility of ongoing existing efforts towards this end.

http://chaos-reins.com/2016-08-20-qt-pi ... a-aarch64/

[sirspudd]

And I now have a fully functional aarch64 Arch install working:

http://chaos-reins.com/2016-09-01-qt-pi3-arch-aarch64/

incase anyone is curious or wants to duplicate my efforts

[WarheadsSE]

Fully functional including:
- VC4
- opengl
- video encode & decode hardware

[PieterDeBruijn]

The 4.8 kernel offers mainline support for the Broadccom BCM2837 SoC:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... t-Features
Does this mean the ARMv8 64bits version of Arch ARM will be released soonish?

[moonman]

Mainline support means it boots, and does not mean it supports all the features WarheadsSE mentioned above