Re: [Discussion] Deprecating Raspberry Pi

[Claudius Heine <claudius.heine.ext@siemens.com>]

Hi Jan,

On 11/02/2019 13.48, Jan Kiszka wrote:
[...]
>> If that target is not maintained and used, then I would be in favor of 
>> removing it from meta-isar.
>>
>> I just tried to boot the 'isar-image-base.rpi-sdimg' image of the 
>> current next branch (d88c739323ecdecc) on a Raspberry Pi 1 without 
>> success.
> 
> The RPi1 is probably also an uninteresting target by now.

I agree.

> 
>>
>> Currently RPi support with jessie is holding us back to deprecate 
>> jessie and removing the loop mounts that is required by the old 
>> versions of mkfs.ext4. So I would be in favor of eigher removing RPi1 
>> support or switching to stretch with that, if there are maintainers 
>> that regularly test if booting works.
> 
> Keeping a non-Debian target would have the value to stress our 
> abstractions. But that only works if the target is recent enough 
> (Stretch or newer), frequently built and run as well.

Yes. One additional point is if we have the man-power and will to 
support non-Debian distributions. And If we do, we have to ask if 
Raspbian is the most interesting one or if for instance Ubuntu for 
RPi2+3 would be more useful for people. Maybe we could stick to just VM 
targets in meta-isar, so that booting is easy to test.

regards,
Claudius

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