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CoolCat5000Member

Posted 3 days ago

Hi, just a quick curiosity.
How many arosians here have a raspberry 3 and how many uses it to play with aros/amiga stuff?

(Sooner or later i will need to choose how the bare metal enviroment will be, atm all the baremetal setup i am using is done by emu64, but i am not sure if this would be the best approach.)

Would aros arm native be ok with the uboot? I dont know exactly how aros arm native and aros 68k could live in a Nice setup, but have the option to select one or another seems to be a good first step.

If someone allready played with this kind of thing, i would like to know the experience.

I allready know that aros68k supports rdb nested into mbr, but i dont know yet what aros arm native expects on the sdcard.

Regards,

ntromansSenior Member

Posted 3 days ago

Rather than a 3 what about a zero 2 W which is equivalent to a 3B but smaller, cheaper and is guranteed to still be in production until 2030?

Cheers,
Nigel.

P.S. full transparency - I have a zero 2 W so if you do decide to go with that I'd be very happy to test.

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CoolCat5000Member

Posted 3 days ago

Well, i said rpi3b cause is the exact model that i own, but for sure there are near variants, like zero 2 w, not like >4

Got the message!

😁

amigamiaAdmin

Posted 3 days ago

CoolCat5000 wrote:

@CoolCat5000 - Hi, just a quick curiosity.
How many arosians here have a raspberry 3 and how many uses it to play with aros/amiga stuff?

(Sooner or later i will need to choose how the bare metal enviroment will be, atm all the baremetal setup i am using is done by emu64, but i am not sure if this would be the best approach.)

Would aros arm native be ok with the uboot? I dont know exactly how aros arm native and aros 68k could live in a Nice setup, but have the option to select one or another seems to be a good first step.

If someone allready played with this kind of thing, i would like to know the experience.

I allready know that aros68k supports rdb nested into mbr, but i dont know yet what aros arm native expects on the sdcard.

Regards,

I have a Raspberry Pi 3b that I have kept around hoping that AROS Arm would land on this SBC one day. I am all for AROS native ARM. I think it can open to a world of development just like we have seen with SDL2. As a second choice, AROS 68K on an emulation layer/hypervisor such as emu68 or whatever. However, I think AROS 68K, while is a cool and nice OS to have, will always be limited by the limitations of 68K CPU. It's an old platform that hasn't seen newer development in decades. It's time to move on modern CPU architectures IMHO.

retrofazaDistro Maintainer

Posted 3 days ago

The nightly build from today...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aros/files/nightly2/20260726/Binaries/AROS-20260726-raspi-aarch64-system.tar.bz2/download

amigamiaAdmin

Posted 3 days ago

retrofaza wrote:

@retrofaza -

The nightly build from today...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aros/files/nightly2/20260726/Binaries/AROS-20260726-raspi-aarch64-system.tar.bz2/download

Doesn't work as far as I recall.

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 3 days ago

Yup, over last two months there has been TONS of work being done to RPi port by Bo Stale Kopperud. I already saw video showing AROS booting on RPi and playing Quake 2 with accelerated 3D. If you are interested in AROS for Raspeberry Pi how head and try the builds from www.aros.org.

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CoolCat5000Member

Posted 3 days ago

Do you know where did him found the 3d accel @deadwood ?

The gpu driver is the painfull piece of code afaik.

As i said, all the baremetal setup atm i am using from emu68, but it seems to be more logical to have it coming from aros native.

I still dont know nothing about aros arm native, but in the long run i would like to harmonize those 2 diferents worlds (aros arm native with aros 68k) on the raspberry pi (<4) land.

I dont have a clue of how yet, but it seems to be the direction.

Regards,

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 3 days ago

As far as I understand the 3D driver is gallium-based and simply part of Mesa package, but I don't really have details. Would be great for Bo to give some more information on this work.

terminillsMember

Posted 3 days ago

#10

amigamia wrote:

@amigamia -
retrofaza wrote:
@retrofaza -

The nightly build from today...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aros/files/nightly2/20260726/Binaries/AROS-20260726-raspi-aarch64-system.tar.bz2/download

Doesn't work as far as I recall.

You should not be making claims without verifying ...

CoolCat5000Member

Posted 2 days ago

#11

ok, it seems that we have the build for aarch64.
Could someone help me how to build for that target?
There is no instructions on aros org (that seems to be with an expirated ssl certificate) specific for aarch64 and from the readme table, the badge for it is llvm.

Kind regards,
btw: its quite misleading having the arm options not grouped togheter.
it has 2 arm variants, and than in the bottom the aarch64 one.
I didnt downloaded the wrong one cause of the screenshot on the forum.

Edited by CoolCat5000 on 27-07-2026 18:30, 2 days ago

amigamiaAdmin

Posted 2 days ago

#12

terminills wrote:

@terminills -
amigamia wrote:
@amigamia -
retrofaza wrote:
@retrofaza -

The nightly build from today...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aros/files/nightly2/20260726/Binaries/AROS-20260726-raspi-aarch64-system.tar.bz2/download

Doesn't work as far as I recall.

You should not be making claims without verifying ...

Are you claiming it is working and you have verified the opposite?

CoolCat5000Member

Posted 2 days ago

#13

well, at least it booted (very fast)!
Couldnt test it cause i dont have usb mouse (only bluetooth)

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deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 2 days ago

#14

Can you leet me know which nightly you used for testing? Was it 20260727?

Also do you know how to run this in QEMU? I think QEMU has Rasperry Pi emulation but when I try to run it like that:

qemu-system-aarch64 -M raspi3b -cpu cortex-a72 -m 1G -smp 4 -sd ~/Pulpit/test64.img -dtb ~/Pulpit/AROS-20260727-raspi-aarch64-system/bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb -kernel ~/Pulpit/AROS-20260727-raspi-aarch64-system/aros-aarch64-raspi.img

It crashes early during boot (test64.img is a FAT image with contents of the nightly build)

Jeff1138Member

Posted 2 days ago

#15

Hi,

Just tried native on a rpi 3 model b v1.2 (not +) and partial boots but stops with a volume read error so I am trying to find a sd card that does not give this issue.
Trying Winblows chkdsk /f /r on the fat32 sd disk and it is finding bad clusters.
Tried another sd card and that boots to desktop, very fast but no usb detection so far.

Edited by Jeff1138 on 28-07-2026 09:01, 1 day ago

CoolCat5000Member

Posted 1 day ago

#16

Hi,
Yes, I used the AROS-20260727-raspi-aarch64

qemu-system-aarch64
-M raspi3b
-kernel AROS-20260727-raspi-aarch64-system/aros-aarch64-raspi.img
-initrd AROS-20260727-raspi-aarch64-system/aros-aarch64-bsp.rom
-dtb AROS-20260727-raspi-aarch64-system/bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
-drive file=AROS-20260727-raspi-aarch64-qemu.img,format=raw,if=sd
-serial stdio

regards,

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 1 day ago

#17

Here is some information from Bo Stale Kopperud - developer who works on this port:

General - aarch64 port is new and poorly tested at this moment; take care with using it; more improvements planned

QEMU - running there is not great, limited to 640x480, needs to use void AHI driver, no network and softpipe gallium only

Raspberry Pi - much better experience, USB is not stable yet, native 3D driver not yet merged.

Edited by deadwood on 28-07-2026 09:08, 1 day ago

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BohunJunior Member

Posted 1 day ago

#18

I was secretly hoping it would run on my RPi 500+ (5), but unfortunately, it didn't work. Regardless, this distribution is a milestone for AROS, and perhaps even a signpost for Amiga systems.

ntromansSenior Member

Posted 1 day ago

#19

Bohun wrote:

@Bohun - I was secretly hoping it would run on my RPi 500+ (5), but unfortunately, it didn't work. Regardless, this distribution is a milestone for AROS, and perhaps even a signpost for Amiga systems.

Unfortunately a lot changesd from 4 to 5 making, as I understand it, 5 far more difficult to support. E.g. RiscOS has had a Pi version for some time but nothng as yet for 5.

Cheers,
Nigel.

BohunJunior Member

Posted 1 day ago

#20

Perhaps the author could be persuaded to make a Linux-hosted version. As I understand it, once launched AROS-bootstrap as a Linux application, the entire 64-bit environment from native distro would work regardless of the RPi version from 3 upwards.

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