[opensuse-arm] Transactional update on RPi4

2020-06-28 Thread Bill Merriam
I have openSUSE 15.2 running very nicely on an RPI4 8GB. I cheated and used Raspbian to flash the latest firmware. I wasn't sure how to flash the firmware from openSUSE. I am also cheating and using an SDHC card to load u-boot and hand it a script that starts USB. It then finds SUSE on a USB SS

[opensuse-arm] RPI4 USB boot beta firmware

2020-06-05 Thread Bill Merriam
The current RPI4 beta firmware can boot from a USB attached disk. It does, in fact, boot Raspbian from a USB disk. The boot process for openSUSE is different from Raspbian, involving u-boot and such. Has anybody figured out how to boot openSUSE from a USB attached disk on a RPI4 with the current

[opensuse-arm] IRC or Matrix messaging on RPI4

2019-08-10 Thread Bill Merriam
Somewhere, I suppose reddit, I read that discussion of opensuse support for RPI4 was taking place on IRC. Somewhere I read that opensuse no longer uses IRC and has switched to Matrix. I found https://en.opensus e.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels. I found https://planet.opensuse .org/global/.

[opensuse-arm] ChromeOS, Crostini and ARM64

2018-08-22 Thread Bill Merriam
I have a Samsung Chromebook Plus which as a Rockchip 3399 processor. It now has Crostini which lets me run Linux distributions in containers. https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/ Naturally I want to run openSUSE. These folks have lots of containers, including openSUSE but not openSUSE for ARM64.

Re: [opensuse-arm] Tests of ARM Leap 15.0

2018-06-07 Thread Bill Merriam
On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 13:32 -0400, Bill Merriam wrote: > > The 2018.05.20 raspberrypi3 image worked very nicely for me. I > installed an image without a desktop so that hasn't been tested. I am > now installing xfce and will report if that works. > The XFCE pattern

Re: [opensuse-arm] Tests of ARM Leap 15.0

2018-06-06 Thread Bill Merriam
On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 12:37 +0200, Guillaume Gardet wrote: > Hi, > > here are some results of my tests of Leap 15.0 images. > * JeOS-beagle : OK. (DVI output not working on BBxM, as on Tumbleweed) > * JeOS-beaglebone: OK on BB Black. HDMI not tested. > * XFCE-raspberrypi2: OK > * XFCE-sabrelite :

Re: [opensuse-arm] rock64

2018-06-06 Thread Bill Merriam
> > > > A search for u-boot-rock64 still comes up empty on OBS, and upstream > > U-Boot doesn't seem to have it either, so I can't package u-boot-rock64 > > myself yet either. > > There is a working u-boot for rock64 on github. https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-u-boot Ayufan also has a

[opensuse-arm] Opensuse on Rock64

2018-02-28 Thread Bill Merriam
I have spent many weeks getting Opensuse working on Rock64. I bought 5 of them with 4GB RAM and 32GB EMMC. They make great little computers. I thought others might like to know about this so they can work on these machines. First thing is I "cheated". I grabbed a debian stretch image from ayufa

[opensuse-arm] Leap 15

2018-02-09 Thread Bill Merriam
Is there any way to test Leap 15 on aarch64? Will aarch64 be there when 15 is released? Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+ow...@opensuse.org

[opensuse-arm] Cloud ARM servers

2017-12-09 Thread Bill Merriam
I discovered today that a hosting provider in Europe offers very cheap ARMv7 and ARMv8 cloud servers. https://www.scaleway.com/ The following observations are from a few hours of testing and may not be correct. It appears the ARM servers are NOT virtualized but run on special miniature servers.

[opensuse-arm] Firefly RK3399 board

2017-04-26 Thread Bill Merriam
Has anyone had a chance to try this board? With 4GB of RAM on it and a couple of SSDs, it might make a pretty good server/build server/desktop/media center or something. http://wiki.t-firefly.com/index.php/Firefly-RK3399/en I notice Andreas has some firmware for this processor. Can I put that t

[opensuse-arm] SLES on RPi3

2016-11-23 Thread Bill Merriam
It appears SUSE gave out free RPi3's with cool custom cases at SUSEcon. They had SLES installed on them. I wasn't there so I missed out on the cool case but it turns out you can still get a copy of SLES with a 365 day license and 60 days of patches. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/suse-linux-ent

[opensuse-arm] Leap 42.2

2016-11-16 Thread Bill Merriam
Leap 42.2 has been released (yeah!) and there are repositories for armv7 and aarch64 (YEAH!). Does anybody know if they work and if so on what machines? I notice there is an appliance for aarch64 rpi3 http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/distribution/leap/42.2-Current/appliances/openSUSE-Le

[opensuse-arm] RaspberryPi3 and Aarch64

2016-06-06 Thread Bill Merriam
I notice there is an AARCH64 image for the RPI3. That seems pretty exciting to me. Does anyone know if it works and if not, why? I suppose there is no 64bit firmware. http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/tumbleweed/images/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi3_aarch64.armv7l-2016.04.06

[opensuse-arm] A couple of u-boot links

2016-03-28 Thread Bill Merriam
I recently ran across an explanation, which I think is now somewhat dated, on how booting works on Raspberry Pi. I thought others might find it interesting. http://dius.com.au/2015/08/19/raspberry-pi-uboot/ I think there are efforts underway to get opensuse running on the new pine64 boards. I f

Re: [opensuse-arm] (Untested) RPI3 image - testers wanted

2016-03-19 Thread Bill Merriam
On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 23:21 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 16.03.16 20:00, Bill Merriam wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 20:18 +0100, Dirk Müller wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory

Re: [opensuse-arm] (Untested) RPI3 image - testers wanted

2016-03-19 Thread Bill Merriam
écrit : > >>>> On 17.03.16 15:25, Bill Merriam wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 23:21 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>>>>> On 16.03.16 20:00, Bill Merriam wrote: > >>>>>>> On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 20:18 +0100, Dirk Müll

Re: [opensuse-arm] (Untested) RPI3 image - testers wanted

2016-03-19 Thread Bill Merriam
On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 20:18 +0100, Dirk Müller wrote: > Hi, > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/RaspberryPi2:/Staging/images/ > > > (yeah, I know its the Pi2 path, I was lazy) contains an untested > raspberrypi3 image. I already know that serial is broken,

Re: [opensuse-arm] Buiding Libreoffice 5.0

2015-07-14 Thread Bill Merriam
On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 15:53 +0200, Dirk Müller wrote: > Hi Bill, > > > I am trying now to build LO 5.0. It runs for a day and then starts over > > again. Can someone explain why this never builds? > > I've been trying to debug that myself, it is an instability on the > build host.. it probably

[opensuse-arm] Buiding Libreoffice 5.0

2015-07-14 Thread Bill Merriam
I have for many months been trying to build Libreoffice on ARM with no success. There is a working build of it on Debian so it must be possible. I suspect the first thing they did is remove a whole bunch of obscure options that are hardly every used. This would remove pre-requisite packages and

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSuSE on Raspberry Pi 2 (armv7) when ? or how ?

2015-02-26 Thread Bill Merriam
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:35:44 +0100 Tchelovek wrote: > Hello List, > > I am using a Raspberry Pi B+ with openSuSE already, now I have > acquired a Raspberry Pi 2. Alas openSuSE doesn’t seem to be prepared > to provide an update to that end. > > Is anything in the works ? Or can one produce his o

Re: [opensuse-arm] openSUSE ARM img compatible with Raspberry Pi 2

2015-02-21 Thread Bill Merriam
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:25:18 +0100 Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > > Am 21.02.2015 um 11:59 schrieb Jimmy PIERRE > > : > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have been having a fight with loads of .xz raw files. Seems that > > there is an issue somewhere. > > > > Would appreciate that you point me to a wo

Re: [opensuse-arm] Raspberry Pi version 2

2015-02-14 Thread Bill Merriam
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:37:18 -0500 Jim McDonough wrote: > On 02/10/2015 11:51 AM, Bill Merriam wrote: > > I imagine everyone is aware that a quad-core, ARMv7 version of the > > RPi is available. Does anybody know what is involved in using > > Opensuse on that device? I am

Re: [opensuse-arm] Latest Raspi JeOS image

2015-02-13 Thread Bill Merriam
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:07:49 + "Richard (MQ)" wrote: > On 12/02/15 15:31, Bill Merriam wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:28:09 + > > Richard MQ wrote: > > > >> On 12/02/15 06:42, Richard (MQ) wrote: > >>> OK thanks everyone. it look

Re: [opensuse-arm] Latest Raspi JeOS image

2015-02-12 Thread Bill Merriam
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:28:09 + Richard MQ wrote: > On 12/02/15 06:42, Richard (MQ) wrote: > > OK thanks everyone. it looks as if 36.2 should work, even though it > > isn't playing nicely for me. I'll try downloading it at work... > > Very interesting - I downloaded at work and got a differen

[opensuse-arm] Raspberry Pi version 2

2015-02-10 Thread Bill Merriam
I imagine everyone is aware that a quad-core, ARMv7 version of the RPi is available. Does anybody know what is involved in using Opensuse on that device? I am hoping that I can use the normal ARMv7 repository for everything but the RPi specific packages. Should I branch those RPi packages and tr