Slackware ARM hard float port on a Raspberry Pi 3
 

http://rpi3.fatdog.nl or http://rpi3.fatdog.eu

New SARPi3 installer image for the Slackware ARM hard float port and updated guide are now available.

The Slackware ARM 14.2 soft float port is still supported.

Hope it´s useful. :cool:

Woohoo!
 

Thanks for your efforts! Been waiting for the hardfloat port to be posted, and am glad your installer was up so quickly.

Installed this morning with rpi3-slackwarearm-install_27Aug16_fd.img.xz , and it went very smoothly.

Only issue is minor cosmetics, in that line-drawing characters were not rendering properly for me (via ssh, not checked via local console), plausibly because utf8 console was not set?

Post-install, rendering was fine.

Thanks again!

Thanks really go to Pat and the Team for Slackware main, and MoZes for the Slackware ARM port. The installer disk images which FatDog.nl provides through the SARPi projects are created from the results of their efforts. Incidentally, this SARPi3 update is 2 days later than I had initially planned. Antecedent events had conspired against me but at least we got here, eventually. :rolleyes:

Although, saying that, good things came from the delay(s). A fortuitous blessing in diguise, perhaps.

I used the same installer 4 times today. I´ve done quite a bit of testing and everything seems to work perfectly.

Yes, I´ve noticed this too and tried to fix it, unsuccessfully. Before logging in, if you change Putty´s remote character set translation to ¨ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, Western Europe)¨ all the line drawing characters look normal. SETUP over ssh still works flawlessly, as expected. Just looks a little fuzzy around the edges. (no pun intended) :D

Leave this one with me. I´ll get back to you after I´ve spoken to a man about a dog.

Cheers!

Hi,

thanks for the hardfload-port, it works fine here on my rpi3.
As i'm new in the slackware-raspi-world, i have a couple of questions:

-Does a slackbuild-arm-userrepository for arm-hardfloat exist, beside SBo?
-Video hardware acceleration: What is the recommende way,
--build mpv with --enable-rpi and the raspi-userland?
--omxplayer?
--use kernel 4.5 with the new rpi-grpahivs-driver and raspi mesa driver?

I already built ffmpeg, raspi-userland, and mpv, but mpv was very slow, saying something like "EGL initiation failed".

Thanks,

Franzen

You´re welcome! Just remember it´s not *my* hard float port, or FatDog.eu´s. That honour belongs on MoZes. I pillaged his work (miniroot fs) and built an installer for Slackware ARM -current on the RPi2/3 with it. I´m glad you´ve found that the SARPi3 Slackware ARM -current installer works perfectly for you.

I am really not the best person to ask about building packages which support hardware floating point. I have been advised that not all Slackware ARM packages use it, only some. So, I´m not at all sure if what you´re trying to do is possible, or even matters, with the software you have mentioned. EGL - has that got something to do with OpenGL perhaps?

I´m not aware of any slackware arm hard float specific repository. Like with all SlackBuild packages, you build them to suit your own requirements. I assume you would just download the same files and then build with the appropriate cflags.

Sorry that I couldn´t offer any help here but I´m really happy you like Slackware ARM -current on the RPi3. Wouldn´t you agree it´s just an awesome OS that just got better?

Thanks to you for the feedback. Thanks to MoZes for Slackware ARM -current and thanks to the Slackware core Team for all the time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears, that they put into creating such a wonderful OS for us all to enjoy! <3 :D

It did indeed, thanks :-)
So i'll see what i get with hardware-accelleration and will report back.