On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 14:03 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 30.11.2015 o 13:52, Mark Morgan Lloyd pisze: > > I've been playing with Debian for the RPi2 (not the original RPi) from > > http://sjoerd.luon.net/posts/2015/02/debian-jessie-on-rpi2/ and find > > that it fairly readily accepts standard packages- XFCE, KDE and so on. > > > > However it still relies on a mix of standard and non-standard > > repositories and packages, can anybody comment to whether a forthcoming > > mainstream Debian will support this platform out of the box? > > Probably when r/pi2 will be supported by mainline kernel. Up to this > moment you have to use "non-standard repositories and packages" to get > kernel/bootloader to get board booting into standard Debian userspace.
What's the status of the r/pi2 bootloader? Is it the same[0] binary blob (presumably non-free) in an VFAT partition on the SDCARD stuff as required on r/pi1? Ian. [0] nb: Everything I know of r/pi* here is based on rumour and hearsay...
