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:
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.
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
>