[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#848101: #848101: Package name + config.txt & cmdline.txt as conffiles

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2016-12-13, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:42 AM, karl156 <karl156 at abwesend.de> wrote:
>> As this package basically only contains the blobs which are working on
>> all Raspberry Pis (1-3), wouldn't it be more appropriate to name this
>> package "raspi-firmware"? (And make it available on armhf too.)
>>
>
> The reason why this package is targeted at the Raspberry Pi 3 and above is
> that only the Raspberry Pi 3 in ARM64 mode is supported by kernels which
> are included in Debian. All other Raspberry Pi models require custom
> kernels from the Raspberry Pi foundation (
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/).

I'm running two Raspberry Pi 2 boards using the linux-image-armmp-lpae
kernels provided by Debian for quite a few months now, so that seems
inaccurate:

  $ cat /proc/device-tree/model ; echo ; uname -a
  Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
  Linux rpi2b 4.10.0-trunk-armmp-lpae #1 SMP Debian 4.10-1~exp1 (2017-02-22) armv7l GNU/Linux

  $ cat /proc/device-tree/model ; echo ; uname -a
  Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
  Linux rpi2c 4.9.0-0.bpo.1-armmp-lpae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.2-2~bpo8+1 (2017-01-26) armv7l GNU/Linux

I'm using the firmware to load u-boot, and then u-boot is loading the
kernel... Works for me!

I haven't tested with the raspi3-firmware packages, but will attempt to
confirm if that works...


live well,
  vagrant
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