Re: Mainstream Debian on Raspberry Pi 2

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-arm@telemetry.co.uk>]

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.

I notice that sources.list is

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb [trusted=yes] https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/ jessie rpi2

where the non-standard repository includes things like 
linux-compiler-gcc-4.9-arm as well as the expected kernel packages. I 
don't know whether there's anything non-standard about this which could 
potentially cause problems.

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