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I've been trying to use the Raspberry Pi alpine images: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi Turns out they don't boot at all on RPI 3b+, and on RPI 3b the wifi drivers (brcmfmac) don't work. So in typical open source fashion, I'd like to try my hands at fixing them. I've found aports, but it is not at all clear to me how the RPI images are being built. aports seems to be focused on buildling packages (which is cool) Could anyone give me a hint as to how to build the RPI images? I would also be willing to write a wiki page on how to do it to help the next guy. Ed
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Hello Ed, yangxuan8282 (in CC) is doing a lot of great work to improve the Raspberry Pi ports in Alpine these days and managed to boot the Raspberry pi 3b+ and package its Wi-Fi firmware. I've recommended to directly upstream it to Alpine, but there was low interest: https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/pull/4337 Now the plan is to integrate the improvements into postmarketOS (Alpine based Linux distro) first and then upstream it to Alpine as a whole package (which is probably less effort to review, only one PR for the kernel changes etc.). I meant to reach out to this mailing list separately when we're there, but since you're already asking about the Pi, maybe this is already useful to you. Updating the kernel: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/1507 https://github.com/yangxuan8282/rpi-aports/blob/master/linux-rpi/APKBUILD Raspberry Pi in pmOS (and lots of discussion for improvements of Alpine packages): https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/pull/1501 See also: https://github.com/yangxuan8282/pmbootstrap/tree/raspberrypi-bootloader https://github.com/yangxuan8282/pmbootstrap/tree/linux-firmware # Wi-Fi! https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/1508 https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/pull/1521 Best wishes, Oliver Ed Warnicke: > I've been trying to use the Raspberry Pi alpine images: > https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi > > Turns out they don't boot at all on RPI 3b+, and on RPI 3b the wifi drivers > (brcmfmac) don't work. > > So in typical open source fashion, I'd like to try my hands at fixing them. > I've found aports, but it is not at all clear to me how the RPI images are > being built. > > aports seems to be focused on buildling packages (which is cool) > > Could anyone give me a hint as to how to build the RPI images? > > I would also be willing to write a wiki page on how to do it to help the > next guy. > > Ed > --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---