On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 20:10 +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Calum McConnell (2025-03-12 18:12:35) > > A new version of the Pico SDK was released in November; the new version is > > required to build the pico-examples, as well as adding support for such > > devices as the pico2-w. Given the upcoming freeze, the package will be of > > limited utility for the majority of Trixie's lifespan, as the Pico 2 > > replaces > > the Pico 1 in new sales, and the pico-examples (the starting point for many > > users) will be unusable. > > this is unfortunately the drawback of doing stable releases. Even if I upload > the currently latest upstream version of pico-sdk-source today, there will be > new hardware in a few months that will require an even newer version of > pico-sdk-source. If you want support for the latest hardware, you might want > to > build from source, use Debian unstable/testing or help backporting > pico-sdk-source to stable.
Fear not, I am running Debian Testing. I'm less worried about all the new hardware that will come out in the next few years using the RP2040 and RP2350 than I am Raspberry Pi's own hardware, with the Pico 2 W support being added in the latest release. All those other boards will be much less likely to have users who just want to apt install an SDK; in part because they will probably be more expensive and less popular than the Pico. > > Please update the package to upstream. > > I can do that. Would you like to help test it? Can do! Thank you, Calum McConnell
