This could be my big chance to break into being a Kernel developer by porting the needed patches to the mainline kernel. Or... I could find something else to do with my time for the next year. What would opensuse do if I booted it with RP's kernel? I guess I could find out before I move on to something useful for the next year. I live in a university town. Maybe I will try to convince somebody they can earn their masters degree, and gain world wide fame, by doing this work. That should take a year or two. The kernel folks need young developers getting on board. Thanks for your time. Bill On Fri, 2024-01-05 at 17:23 +0200, Ivan Ivanov wrote:

Hi,

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On 5 Jan 2024, at 15:55, Bill Merriam <lists@billmerriam.com> wrote:

I see regular updates to the kernel, etc, but they don't seem to address rpi5. I still haven't found an image I can do anything useful with.

Has anyone had any success??  Are any other distributions, besides the Debian/Ubuntu from RP, working?

There is no RPi5 support in U-Boot or upstream Linux kernel, so for now there is no much that can be done. They are initial set of patches for U-Boot [1] which make Tumbleweed boot to the point where it have to mount rootfs , but because there is no Linux driver for uSD controller found on bcm2712 the Linux kernel is panicking. 

So patches adding support for RPi5 on Linux are highly desirable :-)

Regards, Ivan

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231218210341.30073-1-iivanov@suse.de/ 

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