You can compile or take a Pi5 rpi/vendor kernel and copy that into a debootstrap roottree, then you can say maybe 'vanilla Debian'.I thought that the latest raspberry pi OS was 'vanilla' Debian, but with the Raspberry pi bits clagged on top.
You have a Pi5, so it can't run vanilla Debian,
But comparing to x86-64 where you can use the standard '6.1.0-28-amd64' to run on almost all Intel and AMD CPUs/computers produced in the last 2 decades is simply not possible. Install from CD-ROM/USB, select your own partition scheme, filesystems, desktop-environment etc.
The '6.1.0-28-arm64' kernel does not work on Pi5, simply because Debian Bookworm was released before Pi5 came on the market. And more important, there is no mainline kernel driver yet for the RP1 networking. Also if you would bypass it with a USB3-ethernet dongle, that also needs the RP1 for USB3, that is also not in mainline kernel tree yet AFAIK.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Fri Dec 20, 2024 2:56 pm