Project Description

Create openSUSE images (or test generic EFI images) for Arm and/or RISC-V boards that are not yet supported.

Goal for this Hackweek

Create bootable images of Tumbleweed for SBCs that currently have no images available or are untested.

Consider generic EFI images where possible, as some boards can hold a bootloader.

Document in the openSUSE Wiki how to flash and use the image for a given board.

Boards that I have around and there are no images:

  • Rock 3B
  • Nano PC T3 Plus
  • Lichee RV D1
  • StartFive VisionFive (has some image needs testing)

Hack Week 22

Hack Week 21

Resources

Looking for hackers with the skills:

arm64 risc-v sbc opensuse

This project is part of:

Hack Week 22 Hack Week 21 Hack Week 24

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  • Comments

    • michals
      over 2 years ago by michals | Reply

      FTR some boards have an onboard flash memory that can be used to store a bootloader such as u-boot or EDK2 which can then load a standard, universal EFI image. I think where possible this way of booting the board should be promoted over building board-specific images.

      • avicenzi
        over 2 years ago by avicenzi | Reply

        Yes, I agree, but not all have SPI or other memory on board.

    • mfriedrich
      7 months ago by mfriedrich | Reply

      I have a few boards which could work with the EFI images: - Radxa Rock 5B - Milk-V Mars, Meles - LicheePi 4A

    • socon
      7 months ago by socon | Reply

      Raspberry pi 5?

      • avicenzi
        6 months ago by avicenzi | Reply

        The HW enablement team at SUSE is working on the Pi 5, there are a few missing patches upstream that prevent having full support yet in openSUSE AFAIK.

    • gpathak
      6 months ago by gpathak | Reply

      Can we get a list of supported and unsupported boards?
      Which all boards are we planning to build the images?
      Is there any official documentation or link to any Wiki etc?
      I have couple of ARM board such as BananaPi-R64, Odroid-C2 (outdated but can still be used for testing)

      • gpathak
        6 months ago by gpathak | Reply

        Got it add-emoji http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Arm http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:RISC-V

        • avicenzi
          6 months ago by avicenzi | Reply

          If the board is not on the above pages, it is not supported usually. Boards that support UEFI boot might not be on the list, and might work, but if the board is not on the list and it does work, it would be nice to add to the list.

          There's no list of boards that we plan to support, you are free to work on any boards you have.

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