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2024.04.28 - Update, fixes, status & a bit of outlook
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@kth5 kth5 released this 28 Mar 13:25
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2024.04.28-release
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Updates include but are not limited to:

  • Linux 6.8.1 / 6.6.21
  • Rust 1.76.0
  • Qemu 8.2.1
  • Qt 6.6.2
  • Firefox 124.0.1
  • Thunderbird 115.9.0
  • Blender 4.0.2
  • Arcticfox 43.1
  • Plasma 6.0.0
  • KDE Gear 24.02.0
  • LLVM/Clang 17.0.6
  • and many more

Notable changes & fixes:

  • webkit variants are now stable on powerpc and derived browsers work as intended
  • the Rocm 6.0.2 stack is now mostly complete (powerpc64* & riscv64)
  • linux-sophgo introduced using the awesome milkv-community repo's variant sporting 6.8.0 on the Pioneer
  • lxde & lxqt have been added as choice for your DE on all platforms
  • the sd-card creator for Starfive's Visionfive V2 is functional
  • debuginfod is now supported & debug packages are slowly being added elfutils>=0.190-2.1 are required
  • all qt*-webengine support has been deprecated & is to be removed entirely in the near future

Next Milestones

  • Petitboot for Riscv64
    Some focus will go towards Riscv64 and porting Petitboot as another option to flaky linuxboot, grub or directly loading kernels from firmware. This is well underway and a discussion will be opened soon. The first target is the Milk-V Pioneer based on SOPHON SG2042. kexec is functional and some manually crafted initrds already load from home built firmware. Along with the obvious ease of use over other solutions so far available on RISC-V, it'll also bring in netboot support along with emergency shell functions etc.

  • sd-card creators
    Right now the focus is on RISC-V here and finally get it to the state it can generate bootable SD cards for all supported boards. However, this may eventually replace archiso entirely which has grown old and we could just unify everything under the petitboot banner (perhaps not powerpc but we'll see about that).

  • Intel XE & Imagination PowerVR GPU support
    With Linux 6.8 finally being out stable & in its second point release, both are now fully enabled in the kernel itself and in mesa>=24.0.2. Since these chipsets are rather fresh in terms of kernel and mesa code, your mileage may vary though. This will be an ongoing effort as testing is required and patches are still coming all the time.

ISOs

New ISOs are not yet necessary so keep using the prior release.

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