On 2016-12-13, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:42 AM, karl156 <karl...@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: $ 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... live well, vagrant
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