Op woensdag 22 augustus 2018 18:13:20 CEST schreef Freek de Kruijf:
I experienced problems with the 1GB memory of the Raspberry Pi 3, so I went to a Banana Pi M64, which has almost the same specifications as the RPi3, except it has 2 GB memory, and it uses a slightly different CPU. I even found an image to run openSUSE Tumbleweed on it from a year ago. The image used the same repository as the repository for the RPi3 (aarch64). However upgrading to a newer version of Tumbleweed failed. As far as I could see the only issue is a slightly different kernel and boot system.
Currently I am trying to implement my services on it using Debian Stretch.
I would very much like to use openSUSE on it, because I am more familiar with it. Debian is quite different, both in managing packages as in configuration of the services.
If I can be of assistance in implementing openSUSE on a Banana Pi M64 I am quite willing to do that. Don't know if I have the necessary knowledge.
The problems I was facing stem from a bad micro-SD card. Now I am using a proper one and used the above mentioned Tumbleweed image for the Banana Pi M64 dated about a year ago. It uses the Tumbleweed aarch64 repository for the Raspberry Pi 3. I was able to upgrade the system even a new kernel was installed. However the system uses still the old kernel 4.13.0. I notice that /dev/mmcblk0p1, from which the system is booted, is not mounted on /boot. In fact it is not mounted at all. Most likely this is the best option. When executing mkinird I see two new systems generated for versions 4.11.8-2-default and 4.17.14-2-default. However there are missing firmware kernel modules: isight.fw, aic94xx-seq.fw, wd719x- risc.bin, wd719x-wcs.bin, sd8688.bin, sd8688_helper.bin, sd8686.bin, sd8686_helper.bin, sd8385.bin, and sd8385_helper.bin. Another issue is that at start the root partition on the micro-SD card is using almost all its initial space. So either one has to remove a lot of the installed packages or enlarge the partition. Finally I found this is quite easy using fdisk and partprobe. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org