Hi, On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:15 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josua, > >> Am 20.03.2018 um 19:49 schrieb Josua Mayer <[email protected]>: >> >> Hi Nikolaus, >> >> Am 20.03.2018 um 17:53 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller: >>> Hi, >>> what do you think about adding RasPi (Zero/W) and some i.MX8 >>> board (*) to the list of devices supported by Letux OS? >>> >>> The benefit would be a uniform Debian based distribution >>> which runs on all of them. So a single user-space for all. >> I am not sure what the usecase would be. Maybe running Debian with a newer >> kernel to support those boards now, rather than in 5 years? > > Yes: > * newer kernel > * choice of configured systems > * other GUIs: QtMoko, Replicant, QuantumSTEP > * additional low-level hardware oriented command line tools > >>> >>> Well, it does not come for free... Someone owning and experienced >>> with such boards should help us to add the right kernel configs >>> and make the boot loader available for makesd etc. >> I have a feeling this is going to be difficult for i.mx8, judging from the >> time it took for the i.mx6 to be properly supported upstream. > > Indeed... AFAIK there is no i.MX8 support upstream yet. So it will need some > board support package... i.MX8 using proprietary NXP kernel which some parts some time can hit mainline (I'm not sure if i.MX7 can boot mainline - we're using at company kernel from NXP which is 4.1) and I think similar is with raspberrypi kernels - they use private repo to have best support (even some support is already present in mainline kernel though). > >> The Pi Zero however is a different story. armv6 *cough* means not single >> userspace :( > > Oops... I didn't know and expect this: > > https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianFAQ#What_is_Raspbian.3F > > What is Raspbian? > Raspbian is an unofficial port of Debian wheezy armhf with compilation > settings adjusted to produce code that uses "hardware floating point", the > "hard float" ABI and will run on the Raspberry Pi. > The port is necessary because the official Debian wheezy armhf release is > compatible only with versions of the ARM architecture later than the one used > on the Raspberry Pi (ARMv7-A CPUs and higher, vs the Raspberry Pi's ARMv6 > CPU). > >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Nikolaus >>> >>> (*) we already have some preliminary support for the i.MX6 based Udoo neo > > BR, > Nikolaus > > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > http://www.tinkerphones.org
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