[Boxer-devel] Debian Pure Blend for Raspberry Pi

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hi Ram,

Just making this discussion public on boxer-devel

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
<ram at rkrishnan.org> wrote:
> I am wondering if it makes sense to create/build a pure blend for
> Raspberry Pi. I am yet to read up on Blends fully, I think I should do
> that. Just too many things on the plate right now.

Not completely at the moment I guess. When I tried half a year ago or
so there was no official kernel support so I had to use kernel from
raspberrypi github repository[1]. Even though during that time
upstream u-boot seemed to have support it was not working fine and
eLinux led me to a 3rd party forked u-boot-pi [2] but at the moment it
seems upstream u-boot might work [3] (saying *might* because I've not
tried it myself.

So in general Kernel seems to be a blocker unless we have official
package we can't really claim to be pure blend.

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux
[2] https://github.com/gonzoua/u-boot-pi/tree/rpi
[3] http://elinux.org/RPi_U-Boot

>
> My Raspberry Pi should arrive in a week. I don't like Pi because of the
> non-free nature of some of its hardware. But I guess it is the cheapest
> thing out there now. Also one can choose not to use the non-free parts
> of it (like the GPU and the media engine).

Yeah ATM its the cheapest hardware available, Jonas proposed me to buy
Olimex but its bit costly at the moment.

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