Re: build a package for Raspberry PI
On Friday 05 September 2014 07:45 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
On Thursday 04 September 2014 08:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Set up a chroot using just Raspbian binaries, and build/develop in
that. It should be possible to do things directly on the Wheezy
system, but you'd have to very careful to make sure no v7-only code
gets into your binaries and that's not very easy to do.
THanks Steve. Since it was just a single package to build, I built it
on the Pi itself.
There are plenty of more capable ARMv7 devices around at costs similar
to the RPi now, so I'd recommend using one of those instead if you
have the choice.
RPi is really turning out slow now. Packages from Wheezy are not serving
my needs and I am forced to build newer versions.
I checked local availability, and I see CubieBoard 3 available. From
what I've looked so far, this device looks to have proper ARMv7 support.
Which would imply that it would have better Debian support (except for
the kernel, which will have to be built with all out-of-tree patches).
I'm inclining to buy it but thought of checking here first.
The spec is:
* AllWinnerTech SOC A20, ARM® Cortex™-A7 Dual-Core, ARM® Mali400 MP2
Complies with OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1
* 2GB DDR3@480MHz (960MTPS)
* Internal Storage : 8GB NAND Flash
* HDMI & VGA 1080P display output on-board
* 10M/100M/1G Ethernet
* Wifi+BT wireless connection with antenna on-board
* SATA 2.0 interface support 2.5' HDD, (only for 3.5' HDD, need
another 12V power input)
* Storage solution: NAND+MicroSD or TSD+ MicroSD or 2*MicroSD
* 2 x USB HOST, 1 x OTG, 1 x Toslink (SPDIF Optical), 1 x IR, 4 x
LEDs, 1 Headphone, 3 x Keys
* Power: DC5V @ 2.5A with HDD, support Li-battery & RTC
* 54 extended pins including I2S, I2C, SPI, CVBS, LRADC x2,UART, PS2,
PWMx2, TS/CSI, IRDA, LINEIN&FMIN&MICIN, TVINx4 with 2.0 pitch connectors
* PCB size: 11cm *8cm*1.4mm, very suite for installing a 2.5' HDD
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