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100% agree. It’s soooo painful messing with device trees and building a boot image. I’ve got a rock pi n10 for which I’ve been struggling to compile a newer ker
by koprulusector 4y ago
100% agree. It’s soooo painful messing with device trees and building a boot image. I’ve got a rock pi n10 for which I’ve been struggling to compile a newer kernel image that works (the device vendor has only published Linux ISOs up to buster). The whole process is so weird and rough, working with u-boot and ARM Trusted firmware, device trees, etc. it’s like a 20 step process to go through. Installing Gentoo for the first time is 10x easier, in my opinion.
- csande17 4y agoI too have found installing Gentoo to be way easier than building a working image for an ARM development board. I think a lot of that is due to Gentoo having better documentation and tools, though. Then again, part of the reason Gentoo can write good documentation is because every x86_64 computer works pretty much the same way!