No new images - is VisionFive2 dead?

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. :face_exhaling: JH7110 Upstream Status | RVspace

And… Yes… GPU is missing driver… :face_exhaling:

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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 :grinning:

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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

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I’m grateful to discover fedora 40 images and tweak them to point to early release f41 package repos, but as you know everybody is waiting for completed gpu drivers to arrive within mainline.

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