generic-images

What the images target

The repository is the development branch for Manjaro ARM images built for generic Aarch64 hardware. The README explains that a functioning firmware, either u-boot or tow-boot, must already be present on the board SPI flash before these images can boot. Tow-boot images for the SPI flash of a given board can be downloaded from the Tow-Boot releases page, so the disk image and the boot firmware are obtained from two separate sources.

Building an image

To build an image, the README instructs users to check out the arm-profiles repository and then run sudo buildarmimg -d generic -e EDITION, where EDITION selects the variant. The image profiles themselves come from the arm-profiles project, which supplies the package and configuration sets used to assemble each edition. This keeps the image definitions in one external repository rather than inside the generic-images tree.

Tested hardware

The README records that the generic Aarch64 image has been tested and confirmed working on the Pine64-LTS board, tested by Dan Johansen, and on the Pinephone Community Edition, tested by Benedikt Wildenhain. These two devices are the documented verification points, and the list is short, so other generic Aarch64 boards may work but are not formally listed as tested in the README.

Editorial conclusion

The images are produced from the arm-profiles repository and have been tested on the Pine64-LTS and Pinephone Community Edition boards.