[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#848101: #848101: Package for rpi2 on armhf

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2017-03-21, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> 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:

https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/l/linux/changelog-4.9.13-1:

  linux (4.4~rc8-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
  ...
  * [armhf] Add support for BCM2836 and Raspberry Pi 2:
  ...
 -- Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>  Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:23:28 +0000

Apparently, for well over a year now...


live well,
  vagrant
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