[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#858428: raspi3-firmware: avail package on armhf architecture

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2017-03-22, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
>> I'm running two Raspberry Pi 2 boards using the linux-image-armmp-lpae
>> kernels provided by Debian for quite a few months now, so that seems
>> inaccurate:
>>
>
> I stand corrected, thanks.
...
>> I haven't tested with the raspi3-firmware packages, but will attempt to
>> confirm if that works...
>>
>
> Please do that in the new bug that I’ve just duplicated. In case you
> confirm that the package works (i.e. boots without u-boot), we can upload a
> new version with a patch like the attached one.

I downloaded and extracted the raspi3-firmware, copied
usr/lib/raspi3-firmware/ to a microSD card fat partition:

  bootcode.bin  fixup.dat  fixup_cd.dat  fixup_db.dat  fixup_x.dat
  start.elf  start_cd.elf  start_db.elf  start_x.elf

And copied a dtb, vmlinuz and initrd.img to the same partition.

And created a config.txt:

  # Switch the CPU from ARMv7 into ARMv8 (aarch64) mode
  #arm_control=0x200
  
  enable_uart=1
  
  device_tree=dtb
  kernel=vmlinuz
  # For details on the initramfs directive, see
  # https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=10532
  initramfs initrd.img

And a cmdline.txt:

  console=ttyAMA0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2

And booted!

Obviously, etc/kernel/postinst.d/raspi3-firmware will need some
adjustments, as it's currently hard-coded for raspberry pi 3.


live well,
  vagrant
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