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Debian install?

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When will we see a Debian image for the RIoTboard? If the ubuntu image has been tested then surely a hard float version of Ubuntu should be a fairly simple build.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Ive tried out newer versions of linux direct from freescale, however it appears that the issue is that Freescale (CPU supplier) does not have a hard float version of linux for their ARM CPUs!

    This seems really poor from my point of view, considering that other suppliers do have HF support. I should have gone with a different board!

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    Remember that RIoT is supposed to be an Android development board, NOT Linux.  That it happens to be capable of running normal linux too is good up to a point, but it depends a lot on whether you're willing/capable of doing the Linux side on your own, or if you expect the manufacturer to do it all for you.  In this case, as the direction seems to be Android, I suspect proper linux support is low on the list of priorities.

     

    That said, I'm happily running armhf on other i.MX6 boards (wandboard & sabre-lite) with no problems, so I have no doubt that RIoT can run armhf too.

     

    In fact, Freescale provide a BSP that's capable of being built for armhf here meta-fsl-bsp-release.git - Freescale i.MX Yocto BSP Release Layer

    From it's README file

    Hardware Floating Point
    -----------------------
    This release enables hardware floating point. This feature is enabled in both the machine
    configurations and in the layer.conf (because some machine files exist in community meta-fsl-arm.
    DEFAULTTUNE_mx6 = "cortexa9hf-neon

    To build as softare floating point add the following to local.conf
    DEFAULTTUNE_mx6 = "cortexa9-neon"

    Note we also provide some binaries with a software floating point version which we switch basis on FP_TAG in layer.conf.
    This release was only tested for hardware floating point.

     

    Good Luck !