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Bug#722720: marked as done (Please add installer images for Raspberry Pi)

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

Please add installer images for Raspberry Pi in architecture armel.

There are several images available in
/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armel/current/images.
For example: there are images for qnap nas storage in images/kirkwood.
But there is no image for Raspberry Pi.

Thank you for the great work.

Best regards
Bernhard

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Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2013-09-14):
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 18:55 +0200, Bernhard wrote:
> > Package: debian-installer
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Please add installer images for Raspberry Pi in architecture armel.
> > 
> > There are several images available in
> > /dists/wheezy/main/installer-armel/current/images.
> > For example: there are images for qnap nas storage in images/kirkwood.
> > But there is no image for Raspberry Pi.
> 
> The Raspberry Pi uses an SoC in which the main processor is a multicore
> GPU (VideoCore IV) and the ARM core is a peripheral.  The GPU must be
> booted first, and it is also booted from the SD card.  Since there is no
> free software (or documentation) for the GPU, we cannot currently build
> an official Debian installer image for the RPi that you could write
> directly to an SD card.  Perhaps it would be possible to build an image
> that could be concatenated with the GPU boot code, though.
> 
> In addition to this, it requires a number of kernel drivers which are
> not included in mainline Linux.  Comparing Linux 3.11 with the RPi
> branch: […]

Maybe things improved lately, but it looks to me we're not ready to try
and support RPi, so I'm closing this bug report for the time being. If
stuff got better on the kernel side, great; but that's not a sufficient
condition if I'm reading you properly.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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