On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 14:56 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 15:46 +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > Thanks for your response :-) > > > > On Monday 25 January 2016 13:23:20 Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > I have a Raspberry Pi 1B, 1B+ and 2B and I'd love to test Debian's > > > > 4.4 > > > > kernel for it. At least it is/was my understanding that the > > > > versatile > > > > kernel is meant for the Raspberry Pi. > > > > > > The versatile kernel is meant for ARM "veratile" development boards, > > > and it > > > also happens to be a reasonable platform emulated by QEMU. > > > > > > It's not "versatile" in the sense of "adaptable". > > > > I know. A slightly adapted version of the versatile kernel is used to > > do Pi > > simulation in QEMU and I've (also) created a repo for it: > > https://github.com/diederikdehaas/raspbian-kernel (default branch is > > kernel-3.18.x-qemu). > > > > If you look at the changelog on linux (4.4~rc8-1~exp1) [1] you see the > > Raspberry Pi 2 explicitly mentioned and also references to BCM2836 (=Pi > > 2), > > BCM2835 (=Pi 1) and vc4 which stands for VideoCore4 which is the > > graphics chip > > for both the Pi 1 and 2. > > Further reports on /. and phoronix [2] suggested that (full?) support > > for the > > Pi 1 and 2 was added to the upstream kernel and the changelog hinted at > > that > > as well. (A more recent report on /. [3] indicates that kernel 4.5 is > > more > > likely and it could be that it is primarily for the Pi 2.) > [...] > > The armmp kernel flavour should now support the BCM2836 and the Pi 2,
I missed this going in, thanks! > but *not* the BCM2835. Also, Debian's armhf port is built for ARMv7 > whereas the BCM2835 implements ARMv6. Most of the peripherals are the > same between these two chips, so the driver names include 'bcm2835'. > > I haven't yet had confirmation that it actually does work. Ian.
