Proposal RPi Linuxcnc Image Based on Raspi OS All welcome/encoraged to comment

Current state of Trixie:
Images build fine & boot, with non rt kernel.

6.12.47 kernel crashes
6.12.47 headers cant' be installed due to gcc version issues

6.12.34 kernel is good
6.12.34 headers can't be installed due to gcc version issues

Issues installing Linuxcnc built from image below wont install due to version issues with a lot of packages.

Using Trixie image downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_arm64/...-trixie-arm64.img.xz can have 6.12.34 kernel & headers installed.

I'll have to do some greater investigation.

Wanna know a secret, I did a big stupid, didn't realise the image was armf instead of arm64.

Current state of Bookworm.
All appears to be good, build process needs some tweaks, login screen and having xfce the default desktop plus a few little more odds and sods. Basically it works, just would like it a little more user friendly. Good thing regarding this build system is you can set your OS settings when using RPi-Imager, something that was not possible with the earlier build system.

Non necessary stuff (eyecandy), would like to have a linuxcnc themed splash screen (plymouth theming), login background (lightdm config) and desktop background. Just some Linuxcnc "branding".

Eyecandy is proving to be as issue, especially plymouth.

When image is initially created plymouth splash dispalys.

Using plymouth-set-default -R pix causes the boot splash to disappear. pix s the default so shouldn't be an issue.

So until this can be resolved it's KISS.

Just a reminder (it's way down the list of repos now) but we did previously use pi-gen to make LinuxCNC images.

github.com/LinuxCNC/pi-gen

Bitrot has probably set in, though.

A lot has changed in time.

What was the reason for changing, if known ?

Is it a path worth checking out again ?

In other news.
It would look like the Trixie packages have been built on Bookworm for Arm, is that correct ?

Now that I have a working Trixie image, one image will work for the 4 & 5 would it be useful for package building for Trixie ?

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Now that I have a working Trixie image, one image will work for the 4 & 5 would it be useful for package building for Trixie ?

I doubt it. As of today Andy has got GitHub workflows working for all OS'es including Trixie for both AMD64 and ARM and a full complement of builds on our repo at linuxcnc.org/dists

I'll have a look at updating tomorrow and see how it goes.

It would appear the boot splash issue has been resolved.

Now I've looked through the threads on images and it's time for suggestions for splash, login and background images. Splash images have to be smallish PNG files.