Debian Wheezy minimal custom image

[darkbasic]

If someone is interested I made my own custom image:
http://www.linuxsystems.it/2012/06/debi ... mal-image/

[bhoga]

Nice one. I'll be having a play with this tomorrow.

Can you elucidate any on A custom 3.1.9+ kernel with latest raspberry pi patches? Do you have a list of what's been patched?

[darkbasic]

I used latest snapshot of the patches from the raspberrypi's github git branch

[bhoga]

Hrm. I can't download from the link provided in your blog post On clicking the download to disk image, it just comes up with XML content:

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<tree>
  <message type="SUCCESS"/>
  <require_auth/>
</tree>

... does AjaXplorer require a specific client installed? I couldn't tell from their website.

[darkbasic]

Try opening it in your browser, you will get the real link.

[itimpi]

I get the same XML displayed in my browser (IE9) rather than the file downloading/

[darkbasic]

I would hardly call IE a browser. Please try with a better browser (even links works for me) and let me know if it does work for you. In the meantime I will try to find a Windows machine to test it.

@everybody else
Does it work for you?

[darkbasic]

P.S.
Please try the new link in the meantime and let me know if it does work.

[xtramural]

I would hardly call IE a browser. Please try with a better browser (even links works for me) and let me know if it does work for you. In the meantime I will try to find a Windows machine to test it.

@everybody else
Does it work for you?

Nope: Safari Version 5.1.5 on Mac

[darkbasic]

New link, faster server. Enjoy

[mpmc]

New link, faster server. Enjoy

Download link wont even load for me, the other link worked fine.

[darkbasic]

My fault, it should be ok now.

[bhoga]

Yep, download link working now. Many thanks!

[darkbasic]

I made a new image based on raspbian: http://www.linuxsystems.it/2012/06/rasp ... mal-image/

[Montala]

I made a new image based on raspbian: http://www.linuxsystems.it/2012/06/rasp ... mal-image/

I rather like the sound of that... now if only I had a Raspberry Pi to try it out on!

[darkbasic]

Update:
- Synced to 2012/06/08
- Disabled incremental updates, means apt-get update is much faster
- Workaround for a kernel bug which hangs the Raspberry Pi under heavy network/disk loads.

http://www.linuxsystems.it/2012/06/debi ... imal-image

[nimdy]

Could you possibly make an image for slightly under 2gb? I'm trying to write the image to a 2gb card in Windows, but it is complaining that the disk is too small (1800mb i think).

Thanks.

[darkbasic]

Can you force it? Because at the end I put the swap partition so you will lose no data... Such a way you can easily resize the root partition and create a new swap.

P.S.
Can you write the official debian image? Mine should be of the same size...

[nimdy]

I'll have a go and report back. I'm playing with Rasbmc at the moment. Really should invest in some more 4-8GB SD cards!

[darkbasic]

2GB should be enough, mine is 2GB too and works flawlessly...

[oneingray]

BTW, the Wikipedia article reads:

The GPU hardware is accessed via a firmware image which is loaded into the GPU at boot time from the SD-card. The firmware image is known as the binary blob, while the associated Linux drivers are closed source.

As non-free (= “closed source”) software (including device drivers) is not permitted in Debian (in accordance with Debian Social Contract & DFSG), do I understand it correctly that the image also includes non-Debian software? (And if yes, is there any other non-Debian software beside these video drivers?)

Or (as seems to be suggested by the possibility to run the image under QEMU) the non-free drivers are only necessary to utilize the “advanced” features of the GPU (such as, e. g., 3D and video decoding)?

[tufty]

They aren't drivers. They are closed source implementations of OpenGL/ES and OpenVG.

Wiki wrong as usual, world points and laughs.

Simon

[darkbasic]

As non-free (= “closed source”) software (including device drivers) is not permitted in Debian

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/

do I understand it correctly that the image also includes non-Debian software?

Correct.

(And if yes, is there any other non-Debian software beside these video drivers?)

The kernel isn't Debian software too, as I said it is a custom kernel (basically it is vanilla + some raspberry pi patches, there are no Debian patches at all).

[oneingray]

As non-free (= “closed source”) software (including device drivers) is not permitted in Debian

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/

Not quite, as long as http://www.debian.org/social_contract is concerned:

We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these works. The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although they have been configured for use with Debian.

do I understand it correctly that the image also includes non-Debian software?

Correct.

ACK, thanks.

(And if yes, is there any other non-Debian software beside these video drivers?)

The kernel isn't Debian software too, as I said it is a custom kernel (basically it is vanilla + some raspberry pi patches, there are no Debian patches at all).

I'm curious, are there any specific issues with the Debian patches?

Conversely, are the Raspberry Pi patches going to be accepted into either upstream or Debian (or both)?

[darkbasic]

I'm curious, are there any specific issues with the Debian patches?

No, they are simply not needed for the raspberry pi.

Conversely, are the Raspberry Pi patches going to be accepted into either upstream or Debian (or both)?

I don't know, I'm sorry.