On Ma, 17 iul 12, 18:00:47, Mike Thompson wrote: > A few months ago I asked some basic questions about the possibility of > a port of Debian armhf to the Raspberry Pi on this email list. I > received a number of thoughtful answers that helped set me on the path > to creating Raspbian -- an unofficial port of Debian Wheezy armhf for > the Raspberry Pi. With invaluable assistance from Debian Developer > Peter Green, there is now a new armhf port in town. Even better, this > port has just become the official recommended Linux distribution for > the Raspberry Pi as indicated here: > http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1605 I'm already seeding the image ;) > Just to recap for those who aren't familiar with Raspbian, it's a > complete rebuild of Debian Wheezy armhf for the armv6+vfp CPU on the > Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, for Raspberry Pi users, the regular > Debian Wheezy armhf port only supports armv7+vfp3d16+thumb2 capable > ARM CPUs. Therefore, to fully utilize the capabilities of the > Raspberry Pi users, a complete rebuild of 18,000+ binary packages was > needed. This rebuild took about six week to complete using a bank of > Freescale iMX53 QSB build servers very similar to what was used in the > original armhf port. Also, the armv6 code produced for Raspbian fully > ABI compatible with Debian armhf which actually made the port much > easier than it otherwise would be. > > I hope this news will be interesting to Debian-arm mailing list > subscribers. Thank you for your guidance and suggestions a few months > ago that helped make this new unofficial port of Debian armhf > possible. I've been a very happy Debian user for about 10 years now > and I hope this returns something to the community. Did you consider to integrate this project tighter with Debian? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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