Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders

To: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Cc: 845488@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders
From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:39:54 +0100
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Reply-to: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>, 845488@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] CAKTje6FdM-ctgsB0kqmYtbCe=WAboBVjfD4VdqaND23ahRDKiw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <[🔎] 147993702976.6387.570200428732710792.reportbug@midna> <[🔎] CAKTje6FdM-ctgsB0kqmYtbCe=WAboBVjfD4VdqaND23ahRDKiw@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the hint. I am following that effort already, but AIUI it’s not in good enough shape yet to be able to actually boot Linux. Hopefully it will get there eventually :).

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote:

> This package contains all the proprietary files necessary to boot a
> Raspberry Pi 3 board.

You may eventually want to look at the open source RPi firmware:

https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware

--
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Best regards,
Michael

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- Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders
  - From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>
- Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders
  - From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

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