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Originally Posted by inkscape
1. It's possible install slackware arm (or any distro based on slack - slax ...)?
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Yes.
I have integrated support for the BPi in -current, I just need to write the documentation for it and tidy up the Kernel package a bit before pushing it public.
My documentation will be based on wanting to install Slackware on to a SATA drive. Diffs will be welcomed for other installation media targets.
The only thing to note though is that you'll need to use it as a headless machine because the HDMI support is not present since it's not been upstreamed. The installation is conducted using the regular Slackware installer, so you'll need to attach a USB serial cable to it in order to access the U-Boot console.
The documentation will explain what is required.
It's a shame about the lack of HDMI/graphics support but there's nothing I can do about that until/if/when it gets upstreamed.
Code:
root@platano:~# strings /proc/device-tree/model && uname -a
LeMaker Banana Pi
Linux platano 3.19.0-armv7 #2 SMP Fri Feb 20 23:42:40 GMT 2015 armv7l Allwinner sun7i (A20) Family GNU/Linux
root@platano:~#cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc07
CPU revision : 4
processor : 1
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc07
CPU revision : 4
Hardware : Allwinner sun7i (A20) Family
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
