On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 7:25 AM Ralph Aichinger wrote: > Many criticisms of the RPi that were true 5 years ago no longer hold.
Some of them are still true; the weird GPU-starts-CPU SoC boot process, blobs required for the boot process, some Linux kernel patches are not in mainline etc > or FreedomBox is rather offputting, because I very much prefer > true Debian that matches amd64 except for architecture. FreedomBox is a Debian blend, so a FreedomBox install *is* a Debian install, there are no custom packages or other hacks. At least that is how it is claimed to be, I haven't tried it. > Why is the Raspberry Pi 4 with UEFI or the stock boot process > not listed here? I assume because of the proprietary software needed to boot the RPi4, although there is a WIP libre replacement that isn't yet in Debian, see other comments in the thread about that. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
