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Regarding mainline: No, not really - but I think we're in for a decent future with much-expanded mainline support. The difference between the bastardized stuff
by c0l0 4y ago
Regarding mainline: No, not really - but I think we're in for a decent future with much-expanded mainline support.
The difference between the bastardized stuff from the Pi Foundation and everyone else's is that the former has enough momentum behind it that it's safe to assume it doesn't simply wither away, which makes enough difference for me not to experiment with others that almost certainly will. (I have a small drawer full of SBCs without any remaining software support at home from a past where I did not live/buy by that standard.)
- rfoo 4y ago> the former has enough momentum behind it that it's safe to assume it doesn't simply wither away Given that: - The underlying SoC since RPi 3B (released six years ago) all supports AArch64. - The Pi foundation refused to ship an AArch64 Raspbian image until early this year. - The reason being "armv7 works on every RPi, aarch64 not, we don't have enough resource to maintain two archs". I doubt it has enough momentum.
- geerlingguy 4y agoThe Pi Foundation had a 'beta' ARM64 image build since 2020, they finally decided to highlight it on their download pages and installer this year after working through a number of compatibility bugs (none of which I ever ran into, but some would).