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James wrote: I understand Linux 4.8 supports 64-bit Raspi3 SoC, but I don't know how good the support is (as in, "what works?").

Read this...
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/suse-l ... pberry-pi/

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I was able to install the new raspy3 kernel on my raspberry pi2 board!!

Sound played over my TV set speakers out of box without any problems.

Observations:

The ReadME file needs to be rewritten. It should say...

Format your card to fat32 .
Drag all contents to the card, then copy fd-arm.sfs as well.
Make changes to config.txt if desired.
Finally insert card in board and power the board on

I suggest for convenience putting in config.txt
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Also window edges couldn't be seen . scanning problem I guess.

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I suggest that some software be included in the SFS file.

pfile pfilesearch to find files

samba or samba tng + YASSM to set up a network share.


I like to install seamonkey reader (right-click utility) to read downloaded HTML files
as the root user. (remove fake gz extension)

Thanks for the response, jamesbond.

It seems like there is far better support for x86 in whatever OS one is talking about. When I looked into it, it seemed like the ARM platform in general is rather fragmented. When you get an x86 processor and motherboard, Linux and Windows will likely run on it. In contrast, with ARM I saw constant discussions of people trying to get some driver to work on some device - and talk of users hoping that a decent implementation of Linux for their device would soon be made available by the "developer community". And a look at XDA developers shows how hit-or-miss things are for Android in general - and for one's smartphone in particular. It is too uncertain, so I passed on the approach of using ARM devices despite the low cost and the almost irresistible appeal of endlessly tinkering with all the headers on the development boards. The Odroid C2 has an I2S header on it that can be paired with what is claimed to be an audiophile-quality daughterboard with optical out (stereo PCM, I guess) and RCA stereo out.

I mentioned inexpensive x86 proc/mobo pairs - some are at Newegg under the heading of "embedded solutions" or the like. The N3150 Braswell is $65, and an A4 is $55 or so.

jamesbond wrote: Odroid U3 (quad-core Cortex A9, 1.7GHz) feels like a low-power x86 already,

I can confirm that a U3 with Debian Jessie is a very nice combination.

Testing out the new kernel in my raspi2 board.

I have found that I have the same problem with my sound stuttering every couple of seconds. I never have this problem with kernels that
are compiled for the board like Barryk.

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jamesbond wrote: As for 64-bit - well, with only 1GB RAM

Sorry for cross posting from "Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3"

I tried this during X-mas:

devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta2_arm64_raspi3.img.xz as found in

https://files.devuan.org/devuan_jessie_beta/embedded/

Nice! Fun!
Could Devuan be a base for 64bit FatDogArm for Pi3?

Swap might help the low memormy.

Best wishes for 2017! Olle

Olle - unlikely. FatdogArm is compiled from scratch, I don't use existing distros as the base.

jamesbond wrote:Olle - unlikely. FatdogArm is compiled from scratch, I don't use existing distros as the base.

and you make a fine distro of it! Fatdog64 is happily running in my x86_64 boxes. Thanks for your work!

Maybe useful to have devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta2_arm64_raspi3 as a benchmark for the eventual future FatDogArm64?

Hi,

Just found FatDogArm, and love the concept. I have installed Beta5 on a Pi2 with a RedBear IOT_phat that basicaly gives Pi3 chipset WLan and BlueTooth.

Was hoping (far fetched idea I know.... lol) to have had the Pi3 bluetooth available. Do you have any idea if you will have time to look into this soon, or any pointers as to what needs doing... Or where to look to attempt to add it myself.

I can confirm that the WLAN is working in this setup lovely, and so far it all works fine except the bluetooth I had hope for ;-(

To Inrong....

Try BarryK's Quirky Xerus version
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=108132

He was apparently able to get his bluetooth devices to work.

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Cheers Don570,

I will look at this. The main issue is I will be powering the PI from the BT speaker (will be a pi Zero eventually) so PupMode2 is not ideal. However lets see if I can make a hybrid.

I will let you all know how I get on.....

Pi3 bluetooth seems simple enough. I just need to build the correct version of hciattach (read: Broadcom's mangled version of that thing). Some other people have fished the info out of Raspi guy's hands (you need to be very very very very nice and patient to this guy or he won't play ball), so it's just a matter of (finding) the time to do so.

Would be excellent if you find the time.

I have tried the simple solution of building the latest blueZ5 with the patches and it does not quite work on mine. I am sure there will be other issues with using 5 not 4, but thought I would try 1 step at a time.

I tried to download the source package for blueZ-4.101 from your ibiblio archive but it kept failing -550 error, was it my end or theirs? I am sure the major parts of the patches can be hand inserted.

I will keep playing..

I am getting 404 'not found error' as well

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/arm/so ... 62e.tar.gz

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http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux ... rmhf-1.tbz

Cheers for the thought ally, don't suppose you have found the source code file though

bluez4 (and any other version of bluez) is available here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/.

bluez-tools source - that was a mistake on my part, I have corrected the access, it should work now.

Thanks jamesbond,

I grabbed the bluez4-101 from the fatdog64 sources. I have patched it, and it is getting closer, but won't yet install the firmware. Tried the 10-bluetooth-imx6 and that looked promising, but is for differing arch so not immediately correct...

I will keep trying

please leave build notes I really need a worjking blutooth keyboard. I know the one I have works perfectly with FatDog64 and confused as all get out why using same tools it doesn't work in RPi in puppylinux world, everybody elses OS I have tried works.
I do not want to jump ship..