[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] rpi 3 status

[Michael Stapelberg]

[+cc nik, who recently wrote:]

> > > > Everything except HDMI works absolutely flawlessly.
> >
> > OK, turns out it doesn't ;).
> >
> > Analogue audio does not work because snd_bcm2835 is not available.
>
> I now found that both issues seem to be related, and are related to this:
>
> i2c-bcm2835 3f805000.i2c: i2c transfer failed: 100
>
> This seems to be a known issue with bcm2835 and arm64:
>
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=159520&p=1044010

I haven’t had time to look into this. If the two of you could find and
verify a solution for this issue, that’d be much appreciated :).


On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Wouter Verhelst <wouter at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I recently got me a bunch of rpi 3s:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wouterverhelst/32128258810/
>
> (that's five 3s plus a 1 that I still had lying around somewhere)
>
> I was planning on running native Debian on them and use it for
> development of a few cluster tools that I want to work on, but the
> requirement of a serial console is a bit of an unexpected bummer. Just
> ordered a 3.3V USB serial convertor, but I'd prefer not to have to use
> that too often. I'll be running raspbian on them for now, but if I can
> avoid that and run Debian arm64 instead, that would be awesome.
>
> The wiki lists a few issues with the current state of things in Debian,
> but doesn't explain why those are the case. Can anyone shed some light
> there? Specifically, what would be needed to get the HDMI working?
> Getting that to work would fix the most urgent problem I have with
> what's there today already.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> < ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
>        people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
>        and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
>  -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
>
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Best regards,
Michael