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Porting #3199

Support aarch64

gap - 9 months ago - . Updated 9 months ago.

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open
Priority:
discussion
Assignee:
oaken-source
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What is the current status of the aarch64 port?
There are no aarch64 packages; are armv7h (aarch32) packages compatible with aarch64?

What would it take to make aarch64 supported fully?

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#1

Updated by bill-auger 9 months ago

  • Priority changed from bug to discussion

yes they are compatible - the install guide explains the details
https://wiki.parabola.nu/ARM_Installation_Guide#64bit_ARM

#2

Updated by gap 9 months ago

What needs to be done to make Parabola have aarch64 package repos?
The Install Guide solution of using aarch32 packages on an aarch64 system is far from ideal.

#3

Updated by oaken-source 9 months ago

  • Assignee set to oaken-source

I'm working on a version of aarch64 parabola based off of aarch64 archlinuxarm.

What needs to be done is import an initial set of repository packages, and rebuild all of [libre] (that is not of arch any, those can be imported as well)

I need to do a first evaluation of the amount of effort that is necessary for this, but it is much more reasonable than for example the work needed for a riscv or ppc64le port.

#4

Updated by gap 9 months ago

Awesome!

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B V1.2 from before I found out about libre software which unfortunately needs a blob to even boot.
I could test aarch64 Parabola on it with the reverse-engineered libre firmware: <https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware> although the project already stalled once and doesn't seem to have particularly good support yet.

Guix already packages this project, but I'd rather avoid Guix because it's not 100% libre; it allows proprietary works in its repos.

Please tell me if I could be of help.

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