Project Description
Create openSUSE images (or test generic EFI images) for Arm and RISC-V boards that are not yet supported.
Goal for Hackweek
Create bootable images of Tumbleweed for SBCs that currently have no images available or are untested.
Consider generic EFI images where possible, as some boards can hold a bootloader.
Document in the openSUSE Wiki how to flash and use the image for a given board.
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almost 3 years ago by michals | Reply
FTR some boards have an onboard flash memory that can be used to store a bootloader such as u-boot or EDK2 which can then load a standard, universal EFI image. I think where possible this way of booting the board should be promoted over building board-specific images.
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about 1 year ago by mfriedrich | Reply
I have a few boards which could work with the EFI images: - Radxa Rock 5B - Milk-V Mars, Meles - LicheePi 4A
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about 1 year ago by gpathak | Reply
Can we get a list of supported and unsupported boards?
Which all boards are we planning to build the images?
Is there any official documentation or link to any Wiki etc?
I have couple of ARM board such as BananaPi-R64, Odroid-C2 (outdated but can still be used for testing)-
about 1 year ago by gpathak | Reply
Got it
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Arm
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:RISC-V-
about 1 year ago by avicenzi | Reply
If the board is not on the above pages, it is not supported usually. Boards that support UEFI boot might not be on the list, and might work, but if the board is not on the list and it does work, it would be nice to add to the list.
There's no list of boards that we plan to support, you are free to work on any boards you have.
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Reply to gpathak
Got it
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Arm
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:RISC-V
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21 days ago by JCayouette | Reply
I have several RPi 5's, and Orange Pi 5 Plus (Rockchip RK3588) and some older models. Happy to test or help out in any way I can. Been hoping for such a port for a long time!
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3 days ago by flonnegren | Reply
I created a project in OBS for building a tumbleweed image for the Milk-V Jupiter board. Right now it does not even build, but I will see how far I can get with u-boot, opensbi and the kernel.
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2 days ago by drdavis | Reply
I just started assembly of my SiFive Premier P550 System and will see how far I can get on getting TW working on it. I also have a SiFive HiFive Unmatched that I assembled some time ago. I have a replacement Rev B board that I need to replace the older motherboard, and get a current TW image for.
Also, updated the Hack Week project page with this round of systems.
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2 days ago by ph03nix | Reply
I spent the last two days trying to get the Mars CM working. The kernel is stuck when setting up the CPU - I also tried the Fedora images. Looks like the upstream support was never that good, and I think this is beyond what is reasonable to do.
I give up on the Mars CM enablement.
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