Re: Understanding boot process.

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

Again, *please* copy the list.

We currently do not have an ARM version of that kernel available. There is only a version for x86.

As soon as we have a kernel that boots it will be announced on the development list. So, please watch this space :)

-Michael

> On 23 Nov 2020, at 11:34, Furkan Salman <tech(a)fkardame.com> wrote:
> 
> I would love to be part of testing 5.9 as most of the boards are already supported there. 
> 
> NanopiR2s
> RockpiE 
> RockpiE3 (RockPiE with extra Lan,  total 3 lan) this is development board and not public yet. 
> 
> I have good understanding in Dts updates so it will be helpful for ipfire team. I don't mind supporting  few devices myself. 
> 
> I will dedicate one of my amlogic device for building ipfire images only. 
> 
> Please guide me on how I can build images with kernel 5.9 as I have had build images with 4.9 only.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> ---- On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:31:06 +0300 michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org wrote ----
> 
> We currently have a version of kernel 5.9 that we are testing and we will target to move to 5.10 as soon as it comes out. 
> 
> I hope for a release early next year. 
> 
> Best, 
> -Michael 
> 
> P.S. Please do not forget to copy the list. 
> 
> > On 23 Nov 2020, at 11:25, Furkan Salman <tech(a)fkardame.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > Hello Michael, 
> > 
> > Yes I see that EFI boot is already provied in aarch64 image. 
> > I am flashing rockpie and using rock64 dtb or I will try it with rockpie itself this time and report back to you by tonight or tomorrow max. 
> > 
> > When do you plan to move to kernel 5.4 ? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ---- On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:21:43 +0300 michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org wrote ---- 
> > 
> > Hello Furkan, 
> > 
> > Thanks for signing up and posting :) 
> > 
> > I suppose we are talking about ARM64: 
> > 
> > We currently only support systems that use EFI. If there is an EFI BIOS, it will launch GRUB and hopefully return all required configuration to the kernel. 
> > 
> > > On 22 Nov 2020, at 15:00, Furkan Salman <tech(a)fkardame.com> wrote: 
> > > 
> > > Hello IPFire Team, 
> > > 
> > > I would like to understand how do you get the grub to work on the arm images. 
> > > 
> > > I have RockPiE which is not supported by your project but I am willing to add support it by myself. 
> > > 
> > > Afaik I should be able to get it to boot with other Rk3328 board dtb i have its mainline uboot. 
> > > 
> > > It seems to get stuck on grub after selecting the ipfire version it doesnt boot further. 
> > 
> > Do you have any output from the bootloader/kernel? 
> > 
> > > I suspect that the bootscripts are designed for a specific arm board as every board will have different addr for kernel load. 
> > 
> > No, we only support a generic way to boot, because it is simply not feasible for us to provide hundreds of different images for all ARM boards out there. 
> > 
> > > Where can I find the source code for the boot script package? 
> > 
> > https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=blob;f=lfs/grub;h=811c2f745e267e5ff6c246b66bc5f2196e12b780;hb=HEAD 
> > 
> > This is how we install GRUB on x86 and ARM64. 
> > 
> > Best, 
> > -Michael 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thank you. 
> > > 
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