Hi NoisyCoil,
Hi David,
> Again, I'd encourage this work to *also* keep an eye to long-term
implementation
> on Raspberry Pis. Pis are widely available and inexpensive, so
supporting them
I agree fully. Apples M's have been an important step for arm
architectures to move away from iot and smartphones. But unlike Apples M
architecture, the RPi's must not be patched to boot a different os.
Boards like RPi5 (Rock's, Hardkernel's, Banana's) are cheaper then
Apples M's.
NoisyCoil asked
> I have one question for the Tails developers/infra maintainers.
> Is there any chance Tails could provide time-based and tagged
From my point of view - that's also one of the biggest issue towards an
RPi5 image.
The last weeks I worked to buld a Trixe ARM64 for RPi5 on a RPi5 based
on NoisyCoil's repo and branch wip/triie/raspi, see my fork
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/N9iu7pk/rpi-5 from NoisyCoil, branch
wip/triie/raspi, commit
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/N9iu7pk/rpi-5/-/commit/31275aaee7ef1af2677b10effa75cf89c9df5640
(not public, you must be logged in)
It's possible to build images for a RPi5 on a RPi5. The image boots
(efi) but currently fails to find the live partition (initram stage).
It is a very experimental build and should only be used for development
purposes:
- to get arm64/aarch64 packages NoisyCoil's patch/hack (nginx reverse
proxy) was used twice: On the buld "machine" (RPi5) as well as inside of
the building virtual machine.
- due to this "hack" apt_cache-ng can't be used, the rake build must be
started with export TAILS_BUILD_OPTIONS="noproxy"
- a newer version of NoisyCoils Tor browser was needed (as 14.5.7 wasn't
available any more)
- follow the changes in the commit ...
I'll provide soon short doc/info for #10972 and try to solve the boot
problem.
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On 1/14/26 22:22, David A. Wheeler via Tails-dev wrote:
On Jan 14, 2026, at 7:07 AM, intrigeri <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi NoisyCoil,
Sorry for the delay! As you'll see below, there was no quick and easy
answer to your questions.
I'm delighted to see some efforts that might lead to Tails on Apple silicon.
Again, I'd encourage this work to *also* keep an eye to long-term implementation
on Raspberry Pis. Pis are widely available and inexpensive, so supporting them
would make sense. Since they *also* use ARM chips, much of the same work would
apply.
Basically, as changes are made, try to support them as well where
it's easy (and document where it isn't). I'm aware there are few longer-pole
issues in progress for both Apple Silicon & Raspberry PIs.
My hope is that as they get resolved, the rest will more easily slide into
place.
Also, taking steps for similar platforms may mean that if you get
stuck on one, you can can still complete the other.
I wish good luck to all involved.
--- David A. Wheeler
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