Raspberry Pi 5

[dpst999]

Unable to run alamlinux on raspberry pi 5. It is not booting at all

[metalefty]

There's no images available for Raspberry Pi 5 now. Work in progress. Hold on.

[pellucida]

I couldn't find a RPi 5 AL8 image several weeks ago (March 2024) and tried using the Raspberry Pi OS kernel and modules to replace the AL8 equivalents on the RPi 4 AL8 image. Boots ok, and updates fine. The kernel is 6.6.x not the AL8 aarch64 native 6.1 but doesn't seem to matter. Haven't tried with Gnome yet as I have been busy.
I think I got all the details in
https://github.com/pellucida/almalinux8-on-raspberry-pi5
but have to return to it soon to automate the process.
Hopefully official images will appear and no such skulduggery will then be required.

[metalefty]

Thanks!

Anyway, what we should do is to update raspberrypi2 package that contains files for Pi 5 such as *.dtb and bootcode.

[metalefty]

I could boot RPi 5 successfully. There are still several things to do though. There's no scheduled release right now but surely approaching!

[pellucida]

Thanks metalefty,
I notice that this for AL9.4.
Is AL8 being worked on?
Or is the plan to get 9.4 (kernel 6.6) working and back porting the fixes to AL8 (kernel 6.1)?

[metalefty]

It might happen after I finish my work on AL9/RPi5 but I have no plan for AL8/RPi5 at the moment.