[Bdale Garbee] > There are none. It's inconvenient that Raspian is developed "out of > tree" from Debian proper, but that's not a technical barrier. > > It's *really* annoying that the Pi needs binary blobs. But as I stated > during the FreedomBox talk with Eben at FOSDEM earlier this year, and > again at Debconf in Vaumarcus, I think the Pi boards are too cheap and > too numerous to ignore.
Glad to see we agree there. I suggest we rewrite freedom-maker to also create Raspberrry Pi images. It only consist of fetching <URL: https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/master/rpi-update > (aka <URL: http://goo.gl/1BOfJ >) and running it inside the chroot. But I also suggest we rewrite freedom-maker to work inside a disk image instead of a chroot, to avoid having to depend on device names during build. I suggest we build using Debian Jessie and not Raspbian, even if this give a performance hit, to have more control over the available set of packages. My script to create a Raspberry Pi based mesh node, <URL: https://raw.github.com/petterreinholdtsen/meshfx-node/master/build-rpi-mesh-node >, have all the pieces we need to add to freedom-maker. > I just obtained a replacement board (for the one that was lost in > the fire), and eventually I'll make time to do something with it... Great. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
