Hi. On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 10:29:40AM +0100, Pete Batard wrote: > Hi Gunnar, > > On 2021.09.06 18:59, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Gene Heskett dijo [Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 09:43:07AM -0400]: > > > (...) > > > So I found my own solutions. So, debian-arm, please make up your mind, do > > > you support the pi's or do you NOT support the pi's? > > > > Debian has a very clear line set: We do _NOT_ ship non-free software, > > no exceptions. Given the Raspberries need a non-free firmware blob for > > the GPU to hand over execution to the ARM CPU at bootup... Yes, that > > clearly means no official Debian images exist for Raspberry Pi > > hardware. > > I'd say that's not really true, since it's very much possible to > install Bullseye on the Pi 4 using *vanilla* unmodified ARM64 Debian > ISOs [1]. And the same has been true for Buster on the Pi 3 for some > time too [2].
A small nitpick. While it's indeed possible to boot rebuilt UEFI on Raspberry Pi3 (which is free software, since it's patched TianoCore), and boot unmodified Debian ARM64 via said UEFI - the booting of UEFI itself still requires Broadcom blobs, which are non-free software. Reco
