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Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core

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Re: Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core

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Post by Muromec »

sastraxi wrote: post #2

How does this compare to https://archlinuxarm.org/ ? I'm surprised to not see a reference to this prior art in the article.

Arch Linux arm is great and collabora guys are great (thanks for mainlining rk3588).

I'm using this one for my desktop and it's very smooth for a passive cooling thing.

Re: Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core

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Post by Charon77 »

sastraxi wrote: post #2

How does this compare to https://archlinuxarm.org/ ? I'm surprised to not see a reference to this prior art in the article.

Archlinuxarm is a fork. The name is confusing because it's a fork with the same name and logo, but they have got permission to do so

Arch linux aarch64 port is not a fork, it uses the same upstream PKGBUILD which contains minimal aarch64 specific conditional compilation and config

https://ports.archlinux.page/

I think even this project was not being mentioned so maybe they are not aware of each other

Re: Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core

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Post by sastraxi »

Charon77 wrote: post #6
sastraxi wrote: post #2

How does this compare to https://archlinuxarm.org/ ? I'm surprised to not see a reference to this prior art in the article.

Archlinuxarm is a fork. The name is confusing because it's a fork with the same name and logo, but they have got permission to do so Arch linux aarch64 port is not a fork, it uses the same upstream PKGBUILD which contains minimal aarch64 specific conditional compilation and config https://ports.archlinux.page/ I think even this project was not being mentioned so maybe they are not aware of each other

Cool! More digging to do. I used ALARM to build some rpi images, it worked really well but alas we ended up going back to the base rpi os (Debian) due to the rolling release schedule making reproducible builds more difficult. I’m still thinking through the conceptual correct solution for an appliance…

Re: Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

Charon77 wrote: post #6
sastraxi wrote: post #2

How does this compare to https://archlinuxarm.org/ ? I'm surprised to not see a reference to this prior art in the article.

Archlinuxarm is a fork. The name is confusing because it's a fork with the same name and logo, but they have got permission to do so Arch linux aarch64 port is not a fork, it uses the same upstream PKGBUILD which contains minimal aarch64 specific conditional compilation and config https://ports.archlinux.page/ I think even this project was not being mentioned so maybe they are not aware of each other

> Arch linux aarch64 port is not a fork, it uses the same upstream PKGBUILD which contains minimal aarch64

I was under the impression that that's what ALARM was. And that seems supported by https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/core/R... (and the small number of packages in that repo). Was I mistaken?

Re: Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core

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Post by Charon77 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #8
Charon77 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Archlinuxarm is a fork. The name is confusing because it's a fork with the same name and logo, but they have got permission to do so Arch linux aarch64 port is not a fork, it uses the same upstream PKGBUILD which contains minimal aarch64 specific conditional compilation and config https://ports.archlinux.page/ I think even this project was not being mentioned so maybe they are not aware of each other

> Arch linux aarch64 port is not a fork, it uses the same upstream PKGBUILD which contains minimal aarch64 I was under the impression that that's what ALARM was. And that seems supported by https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/core/R... (and the small number of packages in that repo). Was I mistaken?

I posted about this here https://charon.konekopi.com/posts/archlinux_on_arm/

But to answer your question:

A lot of ALARM core repositories are out of date, their extra repositories are even worse. chromium has been broken for like 1.5 year or so (I think it's fixed recently). Can't really blame them, they need to support older armv7 hardwares. Their packages are also for armv7 instead of the aarch64 architectures used by a lot of tablets/PC nowadays, so there's a huge performance/compatibility tradeoff they're making.

Arch linux aarch64 port is as the name says, aarch64 only, the people don't really care for older RPi. And because their work lives on the official arch linux repo, the pkgbuilds by definition won't be out of date. However package building are still community maintained, and will be out of date in that regards.

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