PKGBUILDs VS CUPS

Unfortunately, as another commenter has pointed out, communication between the maintainers and users has become extremely intransparent and sluggish, especially as of late. I have not tried getting in touch myself so feel free to try, but judging by how the recent PR for the linux-aarch64 package went, I wouldn't be too optimistic.

Arch Linux ARM does support C4 with mainline kernel, though requires some patching and custom packages - see https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/1840

https://archlinuxarm.org/ supports ARMv8, tho not sure if it supports this specific chip

There is an ARM port though.. https://archlinuxarm.org/

I have then opened a pull request aiming to fix the issue by updating the kernel package to the latest stable release (lately 6.1.12, also chosen as LTS). This pull request has been kept up-to-date with every new 6.1.y release but sadly been ignored so far (it's been 3 weeks), like many others.

Hello. Since I’m following the progress of Asahi Linux and its Arch Linux distro I’m wondering if you have a plan to release an official image on https://archlinuxarm.org

I've not used it, but why not https://archlinuxarm.org/? Or there's an ARM-based remix of Endeavour, for example.

These would be awesome for build servers, and testing.

I really like Graviton from AWS, and Apple Silicon is great, I really hope we move towards ARM64 more. ArchLinux has https://archlinuxarm.org , I would love to use these to build and test arm64 packages.

For a fairly popular port: Arch Linux ARM

If your printer for example supports IPP and Postscript or PDF then that would be possible. Higher end (commercial) HP printers usually offer this functionality. Take a look at CUPS [1] if you want to know more about IPP.

[1] https://www.cups.org/

Your best bet is to set up a print server. The support page even has a CUPS driver. CUPS is well known for supporting a lot of printers. I run it on an old Mac-mini running Ubuntu. You can run it on something as small as a Raspberry Pi.

Apple should be more open about their removals. It isn't clear how this affects their CUPS implementation or PostScript printers https://www.cups.org

CUPS is under the Apache License 2.0 , so they can just use it, if they wanted: https://github.com/apple/cups/blob/master/LICENSE

They won't of course.

CUPS printing server

Another alternative is for you to set up a print server in VLAN20. Then set up the print server to print to the printer in VLAN99. CUPS is pretty easy to set up.

But after both Apple and Linux switched their CUPS-based printing systems to Python 3 or some other breaking change that I don't mind to understand, the only way to print a document seemed to be using a PC running Microsoft Windows. So I had to save a PDF in the cloud or email it to myself, then startup Windows on a laptop physically connected to the printer, start the printing process, check if the paper has been printed successfully, and shut down Windows. What a waste of time and energy!

Another option is to set up a print server. There are free print server programs that you can run on a computer. CUPS is pretty popular. I used to run it on a Raspberry Pi for an ancient LaserJet 1012. That printer just keeps going.