DietPi OS for Quartz64

[MichaIng]

DietPi is an extremely lightweight Debian-based OS. It is highly optimised for minimal CPU and RAM resource usage, ensuring your Pinebook always runs at its maximum potential.

Use dietpi-software to quick and easy install a desktop and lots of other Ready to Run & Optimised applications for your system. DietPi will do all the necessary configurations, including starting the services.

DietPi images are available for PINE A64, PINE H64, Pinebook, Pinebook Pro, ROCK64 and ROCKPro64 and all Quartz64 models.

Our Quartz64 images use latest upstream kernel and U-Boot builds based on Peter Geis' work.
Kernel config: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/..._defconfig
U-boot sources: https://gitlab.com/MichaIng/u-boot


Website: https://dietpi.com/
Download images: https://dietpi.com/#download
Documentation: https://dietpi.com/docs/
Blog: https://dietpi.com/blog/
Forum: https://dietpi.com/forum/
GitHub repository: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi

DietPi is a free and open-source project. We are be happy if you consider to contribute or donate: https://dietpi.com/contribute.html

[mig]

Hello, I downloaded latest Bullseye and Bookworm images today for Quartz64A. None of them booted (I used an SD Card, 16GB, balenaEtcher on a Mac ; had no problems with other distress using same process). I was wondering if there were previous images available for download in case one of them would boot?

From my standpoint DietPI seems to be the best available distro for my new SBC, I really wish I could find an image that boots...

[fxc]

Hello, I downloaded latest Bullseye and Bookworm images today for Quartz64A. None of them booted (I used an SD Card, 16GB, balenaEtcher on a Mac ; had no problems with other distress using same process). I was wondering if there were previous images available for download in case one of them would boot?

From my standpoint DietPI seems to be the best available distro for my new SBC, I really wish I could find an image that boots...

AFAIK the Quartz64 is pretty much a developer device, so UART is a bare minimum here. Would suggest to read through https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17131

[mig]

AFAIK the Quartz64 is pretty much a developer device, so UART is a bare minimum here. Would suggest to read through https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17131

Thanks @fxc , I am using Armbian (which has a few issues of its own, including not detecting the total amount of RAM). But really my question was about downloading previous DietPI images -- or perhaps building my own?

[balbes150]

 including not detecting the total amount of RAM

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...#pid116337

[MichaIng]

@mig
The latest images do boot, right? There were faulty builds up for some days with a faulty SPL DDR blob update.

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@fxc
It is actually quite stable in the meantime, with pretty much complete mainline Linux support. I'm impressed how well everything works when we recently moved to latest upstream Linux kernel builds. Only U-Boot has no native support yet, so we're still using the patched sources by Peter Geis. But I'm in the process of rebasing those on more recent U-Boot versions, which eliminates at least some of the patches.

[hughsheehy]

I booted DietPi onto an SOQuartz yesterday. No problem.

I don't (yet) know how to turn on SPI, I2C etc, but the boot/install process was seamless.

H

[hughsheehy]

I booted DietPi onto an SOQuartz yesterday. No problem.

I don't (yet) know how to turn on SPI, I2C etc, but the boot/install process was seamless.

H

And if anyone can point me at how to turn those on, that'd be greatly appreciated. 

H

[hughsheehy]

I booted DietPi onto an SOQuartz yesterday. No problem.

I don't (yet) know how to turn on SPI, I2C etc, but the boot/install process was seamless.

H

And if anyone can point me at how to turn those on, that'd be greatly appreciated. 

H

Anyone?

[CounterPillow]

I booted DietPi onto an SOQuartz yesterday. No problem.

I don't (yet) know how to turn on SPI, I2C etc, but the boot/install process was seamless.

H

And if anyone can point me at how to turn those on, that'd be greatly appreciated. 

H

Anyone?

You'll have to use device tree overlays for that, but I don't think DietPi supports those.