"Working" BeagleV-Ahead image with kernel 7.2.0

BeagleV
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After weeks of work I finally have a working image for BeagleV Ahead with the following specs:

  • A very custom patched kernel 7.2.0 for the board.
  • Working USB
  • Working Wifi
  • Working Bluetooth? (Untested)
  • Working all 4 cpu cores
  • Working Ethernet
  • Working HDMI out
  • Working GPIOs
  • Working GPU* (Both kernel patches and a custom Mesa driver)
  • and more…

So, the GPU is currently very experimental. It does expose VK 1.3, not all extensions obviously and does support ogl 3 through zink but the GPU cannot provide hardware acceleration just yet.
I am working on various patches rn and will release a debian based distro for the board at some point.
All general risc packages work just fine btw.

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(Yes, usable KDE plasma)

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Why? Well … just cause mainline patches are taking too long for my liking and I’d actually like to use the board in some useful way.

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nice job @Samarth_Dhiman !

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Thanks a lot! @RobertCNelson

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is USB stable, last time tried to use it with a SSD connected and transfer large files it choked.

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It should be stable imo .. I’ll test transferring large file just to be sure and I do plan on usb boot at some point anyways. @amf99