as there is no new images or mainstream installs … is VF2 dead ?
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VF2 To live。
Armbian Linux (2024.8.29)
Fedora 40
OpenSUSE for VisionFive 2 (2024.8.23)
ubuntu24.04 for VisionFive 2
Rumor has it that there will be debian-2409 this month
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A lot is now in mainline kernel. Distribution are making there own images with own kernels.
Here an example: https://youtu.be/OxbkgMJXKOk
only the GPU drivers are really missing. (and Camara and display)
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upstream’s kernel is still missing some patchs. 
JH7110 Upstream Status | RVspace
And… Yes… GPU is missing driver…
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I use mine daily. I haven’t upgraded since it was new early this year. It works well. I have able to compile and use the TADS 3 Interactive Fiction development system, something I have yet to do on any version of Raspberry Pi 5. I see no need to upgrade at this point.
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My board runs Home Assistent, mqtt and Influxdb 24/7. I’m running Gentoo Linux and updating the packages daily. But stuck with kernel 6.6.20. I doubt if there will be a newer patched kernel someday.
So my board is fully allive 
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I’m running Ubuntu 24.04 on mine and it’s running 6.8 kernel. Boots directly from m.2
RC
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v6.11 is out today and none of the missing patches were included.
What I don’t understand is that some patches seemed “pretty simple” and the author requested for some review but couldn’t push it to mainline in 6 months.
Today the 2 weeks 6.12 merge window starts… let’s hope!
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I’m not sure why they’re running such an old kernel. I’m running 6.8.0-44 on my Ubuntu 24.04 machine. Works awesome!
RC