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 <vagr...@debian.org>
wrote:

> 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:
>

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
From 025a2eb98a10b7202f292a7a6e42a3fa94e6aaab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:16:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Avail package on armhf

---
 debian/control | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2001839..a429f60 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-raspi/raspi3-firmware.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-raspi/raspi3-firmware.git/
 
 Package: raspi3-firmware
-Architecture: arm64
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Architecture: arm64 armhf
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
+         linux-image-arm64 (>= 4.8+76) [arm64],
+         linux-image-armmp-lpae (>= 4.5+72~) [armhf]
 Conflicts: linux-firmware-raspi3 (<< 1.20161123-2)
 Replaces: linux-firmware-raspi3 (<< 1.20161123-2)
 Description: Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders
-- 
2.11.0

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