Pine64

[b1acknight]

Anybody started on an Arch Kernel for the Pine? or any other Armv8 Allwinner board?

[WarheadsSE]

Until we get something better and more stable than the Allwinner/lichee trees (much newer than the vendor sources) from #linux-sunxi, we can not use that Pine64 yet. I have one as a developer, and one coming (eventually?) as a backer.

[b1acknight]

So I'm going to show my ignorance. Lol. Can we not recompile a newer Linux kernel with a compatible gcc compiler? Or am I completely crazy? Thank you for any info/ enlightenment.

[b1acknight]

I'm really new to ARM and a relative beginner with Arch Linux.

[WarheadsSE]

There has to be SoC support. It isn't about compiling the kernel code itself, as much as the kernel code for the A64 has to exist in the newer version of the kernel (which it doesn't yet)

[andre]

It seems there is an Arch image available at the Pine64 site: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A ... re_Release (with some software such as XFCE4 pre-installed)

There are some older images with just the arch root fs https://www.stdin.xyz/downloads/people/ ... linux/OLD/
It seems the original maintainer stopped supporting Arch and switched to Ubuntu, but they release some simple images (boots just busybox) but they have the bootloader and kernel you need, so you can just plug in the Arch root fs into there
https://www.stdin.xyz/downloads/people/ ... 64-images/

I still have to try my Pine64... but I believe the simple images are just what is needed to get any distro running.

[cmsigler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')hey release some simple images (boots just busybox) but they have the bootloader and kernel you need, so you can just plug in the Arch root fs into there https://www.stdin.xyz/downloads/people/ ... 64-images/

[andre]

Using the pine64-image-archbase-31065bsp-longsleep.img image, then running pacman -Syu boots up to the login prompt, so initial tests indicate it works fine.