[Blend-tinker-devel] Raspberry Pi Anyone ?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2016-02-08 15:43:06)
> Quoting Akshai M (2016-02-08 15:01:41)
>> Is there anyone working on Tinker for RPi ?
>
> This project is so very young (less than a month) so I think you can 
> assume that noone is yet working on anything: Instead of asking, tell 
> what you are working on yourself, to inspire oters to align their (not 
> yet shared) work with yours :-)
>
> I am working on grouping¹ Debian packages for various purposes - but I 
> do not know about the specific needs of RPi so I would love to hear 
> which usecase(s) you are tinkering with and which Debian packages are 
> used for that.

What I imagine is for this tinker blend to contain multiple "facets" 
covering different areas of tinkering interests.

Examples:

  * analogue electronics - design of discrete component boards
  * digital electronics - design of IC-based boards
  * bare-metal - programming directly for e.g. Arduino
  * SBC - Debian systems optimized for e.g. RPi, BBB and LIME2
  * data - messaging and data processing of IoT (opposite of "big data")

I suggest (but don't dictate - you are welcome to disagree!) that we aim 
broader than the specific RPi family of boards to instead target 
"single-board computers" more generally.  Also because RPi (all current 
family members, I believe) can only run with a non-free binary blob 
loaded, and therefore cannot be part of Debian officially: I would like 
for each of our "facets" to make sense to render as a "Debian Pure 
Blend" (and optionally also as a non-pure one, where RPi specific stuff 
can then be included).

Here's more on "Debian Pure Blends": 
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends#Terminology


 - Jonas

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