Re: build a package for Raspberry PI
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 01:24:37PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2014 07:45 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> >On Thursday 04 September 2014 08:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >>There are plenty of more capable ARMv7 devices around at costs similar
> >>to the RPi now, so I'd recommend using one of those instead if you
> >>have the choice.
>
> RPi is really turning out slow now. Packages from Wheezy are not
> serving my needs and I am forced to build newer versions.
>
> I checked local availability, and I see CubieBoard 3 available. From
> what I've looked so far, this device looks to have proper ARMv7
> support. Which would imply that it would have better Debian support
> (except for the kernel, which will have to be built with all
> out-of-tree patches).
Hello,
regarding the kernel: that depends on what you want to do with
it. If you intend to run the Cubietruck (Cubieboard3) as a
headless server, you can well use mainline 3.16, which is about
to enter unstable soon. It supports serial console, MMC/SD,
SATA, EHCI USB host, wired ethernet and WLAN (although I have not
tested the latter personally).
A KMS driver (for local display support) as well as a driver for
the audio engine in the Allwinner A10/A20 SoCs are work in
progress, but will probably still need quite some time before
they are ready.
If you need local display and audio support now, the only chance
is indeed using the linux-sunxi.org 3.4 kernel, although that has
its own share of problems.
The current state of Debian support for systems based on
Allwinner SoCs is documented in the Debian wiki at
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner
(which will be updated again as soon as Debian-Installer switches
to kernel 3.16).
HTH,
Karsten
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