On 08/27/2015 12:03 AM, Sunil Mohan wrote: > Hello, > > A friend tested the FreedomBox 0.5 Raspberry Pi image on Raspberry Pi 2 > and it boots and works normally. > > The kernel reports architecture armv7l and userland is Debian armel. > Upon closer examination, it turns out that the new firmware update > script is pulling kernel images for ARMV6 and ARMV7. On RPi 2, the > ARMV7 kernel is booted while on RPi the ARMV6 kernel is booted. > > If you had problems with FreedomBox 0.3 image not booting on your > Raspberry Pi 2 or if you were not sure Raspberry Pi 2 was supported, > then try the new image. If you are, however, looking to buy a new > device, prefer an Open Hardware device like BeagleBone Black instead. >
I have also submitted patches for building a separate FreedomBox image for Raspberry Pi 2 with Debian armhf userland. I have tested it a bit and it feel much faster on the overall compared to FreedomBox on Raspberry Pi. -- Sunil
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