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

[Michael Stapelberg]

control: clone 848101 -1
control: retitle -1 avail package on armhf architecture
control: severity -1 wishlist

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at debian.org>
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:
>

I stand corrected, thanks.


>
>   $ 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...
>

Please do that in the new bug that I’ve just duplicated. In case you
confirm that the package works (i.e. boots without u-boot), we can upload a
new version with a patch like the attached one.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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