[OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby kmihelich » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:36 pm

What I mean by worthwhile is more than just the number of devices they sell. We'd have to determine if there is a significant enhancement to the usability/capability of the device with a hard-float v6 vfp version opposed to soft-float v5. If it's only a marginal increase, it wouldn't make sense to build and maintain that repo. We'd also need to make sure hard-float drivers are available for anything proprietary in it, and compatible with Arch's bleeding-edge versions.

Additionally, I'd need to have at least two of the boards on my desk to do the building, preferably more so that it can get done faster. I could possibly employ my v7h fleet using a v6 rootfs, since they'd support vfp and the v6 instructions. For a good time comparison, it took my Beagle-XM, Panda, and TrimSlice months to get the v7h repo where it is today. I got the base hard-float system in place around beginning to mid July, when I was finally able to start building out the rest of the repo. And you know well how many issues we've had with packages and getting things building properly.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby pepedog » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:02 pm

Made a rootfs, based upon arm5, only kernel package changed and openntpd install from standard, and a few etc files changed
You need packages dosfstools and parted
As root, and sd card inserted (1st bit of thinking, use dmesg to find the device node) (2nd bit of thinking, the 1700 is the size of card, I could have gone higher with the 2Gb used but being safe, an 8Gb card maybe 7700 would be the figure)
Note that the mac address is set in /boot/cmdline.txt and loglevel=2 (smsc95xx.macaddr=08:00:28:00:60:01), and openntpd sets the date for you.
If the card is /dev/mmcblk0
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'wget http://myplugbox.com/rprootfs.tar.gz
umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
umount /dev/mmcblk0p2
parted /dev/mmcblk0 mklabel msdos -s
parted --align=cyl /dev/mmcblk0 mkpart primary fat32 0 100
parted --align=cyl /dev/mmcblk0 mkpart primary ext3 101 1700
mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1
mke2fs -j /dev/mmcblk0p2
partprobe
cd /media/sd-mmcblk0p2
tar xzfv /root/rprootfs.tar.gz
mv boot/* ../sd-mmcblk0p1/
sync
umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
umount /dev/mmcblk0p2')
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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby imissmymind » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:29 pm

will there be a port of XBMC for this device?
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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby WarheadsSE » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:32 pm

So long as the video can be setup correctly, XBMC is already compile on the v5 repo.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby pepedog » Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:19 pm

Can't see it in v5, only v7 and I get the mutex error with that
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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby WarheadsSE » Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:35 pm

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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby BenedictWhite » Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:52 pm

Just to drop by, how many people have had access to Raspberry Pi boards in order to get hardware working?

And indeed, does it?

I get the impression that the mac address needs to be set, so presumably the Ethernet controller does not have it burned in.
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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby pepedog » Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:57 am

Only me at the moment.
I patched so you can define the mac address, but apparently there will be a unique number in gpu which it will be derived from on production model.
All I can say is, on arch it works just as well as on debian, or any other disto
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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby 1lj4z1 » Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:36 am

Guys I need some help! I want to install Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi and I can't find a guide... does anyone know how? Thanks I'll appreciate it. :D
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Re: [OFFICIAL] RaspberryPi: The 25$ PC

Postby pepedog » Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:09 pm

You got one?
Only here at the moment
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/distributions/archlinuxarm-on-raspberry-pi
I am not 100% happy with the kernel at the moment, not my fault.
For instance forget installing rootfs on a usb device, or adding bluetooth (first things I tried)
Also no sound drivers
Apparently Red Hat and Seneca are working on it, will be a 3.x kernel, but won't see for a while.
They are auctioning a few boards off, if you are rich
http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/raspberry_pi/?_trksid=p4340.l2559
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