adcockm
January 17, 2025, 12:33pm
2
I haven’t installed it as I don’t use Arch, but you should check the many forum posts, and read them thoroughly. These just seemed to be the most useful/recent/active posts, but there are others that come up in search results:
that would be great!
or NixOs for uc.
Current status: a test firmware is built.
tl;dr – I maintain the devterm ArchLinuxARM distro, and now I also want to do uConsole-CM4;
As of now, please don’t follow any “instructions” here – it’s a messy dump of my head and what I did.
Please educate me if I’m doing anything wrong – thanks!
Instructions
build-kernel.sh
official kernel build doc: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/linux_kernel.html
official cmdline.txt doc: RPi cmdline.txt - eLinux.org
Dependencies
pacm…
One unified ArchLinux OS image for all RPi cores(CM3, CM4, CM4S).
[the evidence running Arch on a CM4S]
Default config
OS configuration:
packages
base, vim, sudo, NetworkManager,
uConsole kernel, bootloader
and their dependencies
root has no password, and cannot be used directly
a normal user account named ucon is set up, with the password ucon
it’s in group adm and wheel so it has full access to sudo, systemd stuff
Download link
os image compressed: https://filehosting.faint.day/uc…
Someone’s experience after using one of the builds for a month:
I am using KDE Plasma on uConsole for the last 1 month and decided to share my experiences with community.
In a nutshell
So far, the experience of using KDE Plasma (desktop edition) on uConsole is really positive. It is faster than I thought and provides a very satisfying productivity.
The setup
I am using Plasma on top of Arch Linux assembled with the scripts provided by @PotatoMania . I use Wayland and never even tried X.org on my uConsole. I have disabled search indexing (no point or me).
A…
1 Like