In the download section on aros.org, under today's date, there is a Nightly Build: raspi-armhf-system

decription: The native version for ARMv6 based Raspberry Pi computers. Contains all files needed to boot from a FAT formatted sd-card.

Does this mean we have a working native port on Raspberry Pi?!

Hi,

I think ARMv6 is 32bit as the latest pis are 64bit ARMv8, so maybe it is an old build. Not sure how advanced feature wise it was.

The port was done a long time ago, but I don't recall to which extend it was working. Recently a new developer seems to be fixing some of the RasPi support so maybe in future there will be a working port.

And I'm wondering why the hosted Linux version won't run on my RPi 500+... Because it's 32-bit
So we don't have anything for 64-bit ARM...

No, I don't think so. As far as I remember the work on ARM port was done around 10 years ago.

That's around the time I used a hosted Linux to build an OrangePi distro. Now I understand where I'm at.

Hi, have you tried the build?

I am also interested. I have a rpi3b that the only destiny Will be aros/amiga stuff.

Atm im (the ai) doing support for raspberry peripherals (sound, usb and bluetooth) to interact with an emulator.

Dunno how bad would be to make the native build work.

Regards,
Ps:aarch64

I tried running the hosted Linux version on my RPi 500+, and AROSBootstrap wouldn't run. Since it's a 32-bit version, it shouldn't have been.
I'm still interested in this AROS development line, but it seems to be a dry branch. It's a shame, because I think the latest Raspberry Pi projects are great. It would be great if the developer working on the native ARM port would comment on the matter.
Well, then, we'll have to focus on the x64 version.

fwiw:
The native (32-bit) version of AROS for ARM never managed to boot all the way through. The developer at that time took another route and started working on the PI to be included in a native Amiga as an accelerator (sorry, the exact name of this hardware eludes me at time of writing this).

One of the issues with the native version for the PI is the firmware of that specific hardware, as it changes all the time and back then broke things on a regular base. No idea if that is still the case though.

The hosted version however worked as intended back then on a 32 bit-linux host. It should still work but haven't tried for ages as somewhere along the line something broke for the 32-bit ARM AROS hosted version in that I was unable to build it (the nightly builds failed as well back then). I have not ran this version since then.

Emu68 for PiStorm?

Yeah, that's the name indeed. Thank you very much @cdimauro for that (it really escaped from memory).

Wow, that is News for me.
Aros never fully boots on aarch64 native?
(Dunno why i thought it was missing only the drivers, like usb etc)

Anyway, i would like to try the build some day (not today, that i need to take care of projects not related to amiga and aros)

I hope this week to close the arm side support of the emulator (missing bluetooth and sound. USB working hid and msc, but not a cheap and old keyboard, thought)

That should be enough to make the first version of the readme. (No sense have an emulator that you cant interact with 😬)

Regards,

Michal Schulz was working on AROS then he started to develop Emu68. :-)

Let me be cautious with wording in order to not discredit all the efforts and/or other people... it never did for me (pi3) but might have worked for the developer back then (I do not recall exactly but maybe the original aros-exec forum posts are able to shed a light on that topic).


It did missed the drivers initially but one of the issues here is that in order to boot AROS (the workbench) you'd need access to the USB (technically the postoffice protocol) to be able to actually load something of disk (SD-card in this instance).


@miker: yeah indeed, it was basically michal (together with kalamatee) who was working on ARM support for AROS back then but he got sidetracked a little (nice little sidetrack though) :-)

Strange, you can acesso the sdcard without the USB, but i Will take a look when i build it (atm fighting with bluetooth, really, low level is quite a strange land … )

I want to finish this (arm support) and hope the experience can help the AI to handle the AROS scenario.

(I am using external libraries for usb and bluetooth, but i have even use the AROS code to give some light on the usb bring up 😁)

Regards,