On Jul 18, 2012, at 03:00, Mike Thompson wrote: > A few months ago I asked some basic questions about the possibility of > a port of Debian armhf to the Raspberry Pi on this email list. I > received a number of thoughtful answers that helped set me on the path > to creating Raspbian -- an unofficial port of Debian Wheezy armhf for > the Raspberry Pi. With invaluable assistance from Debian Developer > Peter Green, there is now a new armhf port in town. Even better, this > port has just become the official recommended Linux distribution for > the Raspberry Pi as indicated here: > http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1605 > > This unofficial port of Debian armhf will now be downloaded and used > by a significant number of the 200,000 existing users of the Raspberry > Pi and will hopefully reach a projected 1 million+ users of the > Raspberry Pi by the end of the year. Hopefully this will help expose > 100,000's of new Linux users to the Debian Project. > > Just to recap for those who aren't familiar with Raspbian, it's a > complete rebuild of Debian Wheezy armhf for the armv6+vfp CPU on the > Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, for Raspberry Pi users, the regular > Debian Wheezy armhf port only supports armv7+vfp3d16+thumb2 capable > ARM CPUs. Therefore, to fully utilize the capabilities of the > Raspberry Pi users, a complete rebuild of 18,000+ binary packages was > needed. This rebuild took about six week to complete using a bank of > Freescale iMX53 QSB build servers very similar to what was used in the > original armhf port. Also, the armv6 code produced for Raspbian fully > ABI compatible with Debian armhf which actually made the port much > easier than it otherwise would be. > > I hope this news will be interesting to Debian-arm mailing list > subscribers. Thank you for your guidance and suggestions a few months > ago that helped make this new unofficial port of Debian armhf > possible. I've been a very happy Debian user for about 10 years now > and I hope this returns something to the community.
A warm "thank you!" for your work Mike. I look forward to testing this out. Now I just need to get a Raspberry Pi! :) Cheers, Jeremiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
