I've got this rock64, which is an aarch64 board comparable to a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with 4 gigs of ram. For years I've wanted to put a distribution on here that doesn't have a premade image available, mainly because out of all the options on that page I
don't actually like any of them. Well, except NetBSD, but NetBSD doesn't have GPU drivers for it. Problem is, everything I do want to use provides rootfs tarballs and tells you to figure it out. To do that I've got to get a Linux kernel, track down the
device trees so it knows what hardware it has, and then wrangle u-boot into actually booting the whole thing. I figured that would be the hard part; little did I know the depths that Single Board Computer Hell would reach.
Unlike x86, ARM is far, far from a standardised platform. The end result of this is that unless you can find tailor-made images specific for your particular ARM board, you';re gonna have to do a lot of manual labour to install an operating system that
should work.
https://www.osnews.com/story/134879/my-unholy-battle-with-a-rock64/
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