Re: Mainstream Debian on Raspberry Pi 2
On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 14:03 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> W dniu 30.11.2015 o 13:52, Mark Morgan Lloyd pisze:
> > I've been playing with Debian for the RPi2 (not the original RPi) from
> > http://sjoerd.luon.net/posts/2015/02/debian-jessie-on-rpi2/ and find
> > that it fairly readily accepts standard packages- XFCE, KDE and so on.
> >
> > However it still relies on a mix of standard and non-standard
> > repositories and packages, can anybody comment to whether a forthcoming
> > mainstream Debian will support this platform out of the box?
>
> Probably when r/pi2 will be supported by mainline kernel. Up to this
> moment you have to use "non-standard repositories and packages" to get
> kernel/bootloader to get board booting into standard Debian userspace.
What's the status of the r/pi2 bootloader? Is it the same[0] binary
blob (presumably non-free) in an VFAT partition on the SDCARD stuff as
required on r/pi1?
Ian.
[0] nb: Everything I know of r/pi* here is based on rumour and
hearsay...
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