Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core

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by losgehts • 5 days ago

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sastraxi2• 3 days ago

How does this compare to https://archlinuxarm.org/? I'm surprised to not see a reference to this prior art in the article.

Muromec2• 3 days ago

Arch Linux arm is great and collabora guys are great (thanks for mainlining rk3588).

I'm using this one for my desktop and it's very smooth for a passive cooling thing.

Charon774• 3 days ago

Archlinuxarm is a fork. The name is confusing because it's a fork with the same name and logo, but they have got permission to do so

Arch linux aarch64 port is not a fork, it uses the same upstream PKGBUILD which contains minimal aarch64 specific conditional compilation and config

https://ports.archlinux.page/

I think even this project was not being mentioned so maybe they are not aware of each other

sastraxi2• 3 days ago

Cool! More digging to do. I used ALARM to build some rpi images, it worked really well but alas we ended up going back to the base rpi os (Debian) due to the rolling release schedule making reproducible builds more difficult. I’m still thinking through the conceptual correct solution for an appliance…

yjftsjthsd-h• 3 days ago

Arch linux aarch64 port is not a fork, it uses the same upstream PKGBUILD which contains minimal aarch64

I was under the impression that that's what ALARM was. And that seems supported by https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/core/R... (and the small number of packages in that repo). Was I mistaken?

Muromec2• 3 days ago

Steam frame exists, right?

starvit35• 3 days ago

Soon™

pjmlp• 3 days ago

Holo Core vs Holo Lens, sometimes there is no imagination in naming.

tancop• 3 days ago

steamos holo was the codename for steamos 3. this project is called holo core because its the core for a new steamos version that will run on aarch64. the fact that its shipping on a vr device first is just a coincidence.

valves long term plan is a big transition from x86 to arm for all their hardware, steam frame is the first one because its made for streaming first so people wont complain if some pc vr games dont run on device.

the main reason is they dont want to stay locked to amd. intel is technically an option but they have a history of bad drivers and treating linux as a liability. arm gives a license to just about anyone so the market is wide open and valve can even make their own silicon if they feel like taking on a challenge.

Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core

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