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Has anyone managed to boot the mainline kernel (from kernel.org, not RPi vendor fork) on the Raspberry Pi4 with its native bootloader ?

Without an initrd → black screen.
With initrd + followkernel param → rainbow screen.
No serial output in either case.
I'm using the correct DTB.

Same mainline kernel boots when chainloaded via U-Boot (as we do for Slackware on the RPi4).

I haven’t seen any recent reports of anyone getting this working — has anyone?

#Slackware #Linux #RaspberryPi #AArch64