Raspberry Pi 4 Model B documentation should be updated or possible bug?

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I’m installing IPFire on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, following this guide. I’m using HDMI & USB Keyboard instead of the serial console. For this setup to work, I confirm that SERIAL-CONSOLE=OFF should be set as mentioned in the guide.

However, the guide also mentions that when using the serial console enable_uart=1 should be added to the config.txt file. Actually this line is already present in the default config.txt file, so I tried to comment it out (since I’m not using the serial console), but I found out that when removed the system doesn’t boot.

Bottom line, either the following phrase should be removed altogether from the guide:

If using the serial console: edit the config.txt file and add enable_uart=1 to the end

or otherwise there’s a bug preventing IPFire to boot when enable_uart=1 is not set.

Please let me know, and if you agree I can update the guide.

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Of course you can update the community driven Wiki page.

You can also note the Core version of IPFire you tested and how much RAM are you using for your Pi 4.

Thank you for contributing to the ARM SBC support.

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I updated the guide, if anything should be improved please let me know, thanks.

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